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EX-PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT ARRIVING 
AT LUXOR 



From the Jungle 
Through Europe 
With Roosevelt 



By 
John Callan O'Laughlin 

Washington Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune 



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FOREWORD 

The American people have been brought to a 
realization of the high position they occupy in 
the world's affairs by the character of the recep- 
tion which was accorded in Africa and Europe to 
Theodore Roosevelt, their former President. They 
have read of rulers, monarchical and republican, 
vicing with each other to entertain their dis- 
tinguished representative. They know that 
governments have sought his advice and assis- 
tance; that aristocracies have unbent before 
this foremost democrat, that the people, what- 
ever the land, have hailed him as the exponent 
of those fundamental principles of right and 
morality, which are inherent in the human 
breast. The Chicago Tribune, inspired by that 
keen enterprise which makes it one of the great 
papers of the world, sent me to accompany 
Colonel Roosevelt from the jungle back through 
civilization. It was a duty which was a privilege; 
for it gave me a closer insight into the great and 
simple mind which sees straight, and a better 
knowledge of the iron will and courage which 
cause action, whatever the effect upon the 
personal fortunes of the man whose proudest 
title is his American citizenship. 

John Callan O'Laughlix. 

Washington, D. C. 



CONTENTS 



Chapter Page 

I The Race 1 

II The Sudan 29 

III Egypt 49 

IV Italy 71 

V Austria and Hungary 102 

VI France, Belgium and Holland 116 

VII Scandinavia 130 

VIII Germany 144 

IX England 157 

X 173 



FROM THE JUNGLE 
I 

THE RACE 

Oh, the hippo wears a smile. 

On the Nile. 
And the rhino weighs a pile. 

On the Nile. 
The dig dig scrambles by. 
The cranes and herons fly. 
The negroes ne'er come nigh 
The crocodile they spy 

On the Nile, on the Nile. 

npHERE, in the wilderness, two thousand 
miles from the Mediterranean shore 
of Africa, I got my first glimpse of Theodore 
Roosevelt since his departure from New 
York on March 17, 1909. With bathrobe 
and pajamas flapping around my legs in 
the stiff breeze of the early morning, I 
stood behind the Sudanese .pilot of the 
steamer, peering through a pair of battered 
opera glasses up the reaches of the Nile. 



2 FROM THE JUNGLE 

One object after another passed in review, 
causing successive disappointments with 
faihire to resemble anything Hke a ship. 
Suddenly around a bend in the stream ap- 
peared a boat propelled by a stern paddle 
wheel. 

"The Dal, the Dal!" I shouted to the 
watch. The men focussed their eyes on 
my discovery. ''Eyah," answered the Chief 
Reis, whom my cry had roused from sleep. 
"Dal." 

I tapped myself gleefully on the breast. 
"Miya piastres, miya piastres," I said. 
The watch caught my meaning. I had 
promised a reward of one hundred piastres, 
five dollars, to the first man who sighted 
the vessel bringing Colonel Roosevelt to 
civilization. A vigorous shaking of heads 
in the negative was the response. Then 
burst forth loud protests in Arabic. The 
humor of the situation appealed to the 
modern and savage alike. We began to 
laugh uproariously, laughter buoyant with 
happiness; for my trip of eight thousand 



FROM THE JUNGLE 3 

miles to meet the former President of tlie 
United States had ended and the reis and 
his assistants found pleasure in my joy. 

And such a trip as it had been. During 
the evening of February 14, I was busily 
engaged in Washington dictating a dis- 
patch for the Chicago Tribune on the de- 
velopments in the factional fight in the 
Republican Party. The telegraph operator 
interrupted me with the following message 
signed by the editor of the Tribune: 

"Prepare to go to Africa with all dis- 
patch to meet Roosevelt. You must start 
as early as possible, making quick connec- 
tions and reach him with all speed. We 
have cabled our London correspondent to 
facilitate your journey." 

It took me a day to make preparations. 
Then with the wings of Mercury I sped to 
Khartoum. New York I reached in five 
hours, England in six days, Brindisi on the 
heel of Italy's boot in tw^o days. Port Said 
by swift mail steamer, Cairo, where a day 
and a half were spent in enforced idleness, 



4 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Shellal by rail, then up the Nile to Wadi 
Haifa, and across the yellow desert to 
Khartoum. Exactly eighteen days were re- 
quired to make a journey over sea and land, 
to cover the eight thousand miles separat- 
ing the modern capital of a modern nation 
and the farthest outpost of British civiliza- 
tion in the Dark Continent. 

Khartoum looked strangely inviting in 
the mellow glow of twilight. I gave little 
heed, however, to the details of the pic- 
turesque scene or to the novel sights which 
on every side offered themselves for in- 
spection. I had made an agreement with 
a rival newspaper man, whom I met in 
Cairo, to await the coming of Colonel 
Roosevelt at Khartoum. This city kisses 
the shore of the Nile opposite that upon 
which the railroad station is located. The 
hotel is usually reached by ferry; but I 
saw my rival boarding a private boat. 
"That means," I said nervously to Frederick 
E. Sturdevant, of the New York World 
"that he is going up the Nile." When I 



PROM THE JUNGLE 5 

entered the hotel I saw Gilson Gardner 
of the United Press Association. I 
told him I proposed to learn what our 
friend the enemy intended to do and to 
act accordingly. I sought the dragoman 
of the ever present Cook. "You can earn 
a sovereign," I told him, "by finding out 
exactly the plans of the American corres- 
pondent who arrived on the train this 
evening." He came back in a few minutes. 
"I see your friend's dragoman. He my 
brother — no, no, no that, I mean he an' 
me do work same. He say the man 
telegraphed ahead for boat. Kongo he 
got. Kongo leave yes'dy for Goz Abu 
Gomo. He go tomorrow steamer Cairo 
for Goz Abu Gomo. He take Kongo and 
steam up Nile till meets Dal." 

I lost no time in hastening to the office 
of the General Manager of the Sudan 
Development Company. I asked him if 
it were possible to charter the Cairo. "No," 
he answered decisively. "The Cairo is a 
mail steamer, and under contract with the 



6 FROM THE JUNGLE 

government to deliver mails at various 
points up the river." I asked if there were 
any other steamer that could be chartered. 
He answered in the negative. As we were 
talking, I heard the voice of my rival in 
the next room. I realized then that he had 
closed every avenue to my chartering a 
vessel from the Sudan Development Com- 
pany. I returned to the hotel. I still had 
one chance left. The next morning bright 
and early I was knocking at the door of 
Captain Bond of the Royal Navy, who is 
superintendent of the government trans- 
port department of the Sudan. 

"I want a steamer to take me up the 
Nile," I told him. "I want the fastest 
boat you've got." 

"I have three boats which are at your 
disposal," was his cheering response. "One 
has a speed of three miles an hour and is 
very cheap. Another goes four miles an 
hour and is moderately expensive, and the 
third has a speed of six miles an hour and 
costs a good deal of money." 



PROM THE JUNGLE 7 

*'Give me the six-mile boat as quickly 
as you can," I said. 

Captain Bond drew up a formidable 
contract to which I affixed my signature. 

'The Abbas Pasha," he said, "will be 
alongside your hotel at two o'clock this 
afternoon. You must provide the food. 
I will arrange, if you desire, for a cook and 
boys to look after you." 

I thanked the captain for his courtesy, 
and hastened back to the hotel. The 
Cairo already had left with my rival aboard, 
and I saw her smoke rising behind the 
point which marks the meeting of the 
White and Blue Niles. As I looked at it, 
it seemed to expand and take the form 
of a black flag — a signal of war to the knife. 

Every minute became doubly precious. I 
saw Mr. Gardner and Mr. Sturdevant. The 
former arranged with Miss Griffiths, 
who also represented the United Press at 
Khartoum, to send at various points 
along the Nile daily bulletins in reference to 
the location of Mr. Roosevelt. Sturdevant 



8 FROM THE JUNGLE 

agreed to be ready to land at a station and 
hold the wire, if necessary, against our 
rival, by filing urgent rates back to Khar- 
toum. We hastened around the town, 
buying supplies. The genial hotel keeper 
assisted us to secure provisions. We stocked 
the larder for six days, the time within 
which we ought to connect with the 
Dal. 

Promptly at two o'clock, the Abbas 
Pasha appeared at the hotel landing. She 
seemed a Godsend to us, slow, though her 
speed of six knots. We threw aboard all 
the provisions and supplies that had ar- 
rived. Unfortunately the butcher was 
behindhand. Boy after boy was sent to his 
shop. At the end of an exasperating hour 
and a half, we saw a donkey coming on the 
run down the road carrying upon his rump 
two panniers and a small Sudanese black, 
who was whacking him with a stout stick 
and shrieking at him the peculiar ''arrhh" 
which corresponds with the "git up" of 
America. Then it was discovered there 



FROM THE JUNGLE 9 

was no ice. In the tropical heat, meat 
cannot keep a day unless cooled. Tele- 
phones were sent to the ice house. Word 
came back that the ice had been delivered 
to a boy an hour before. Messengers were 
sent after the delinquent. We stood first 
on one foot and then on the other for half 
an hour. At last the hotel keeper shouted: 
"Here he comes." Down the road came 
the truant, flanked on either side by the 
messengers who had gone after him. Wlien 
he arrived, there was a voluble explanation 
in Arabic, to which no one paid any heed. 
The ice was thrown aboard, the lines were 
cast off from the bank, and slowly, oh, so 
slowly, the Abbas Pasha turned up the 
stream. 

It was four o'clock in the afternoon when 
we left, two hours after the time originally 
fixed, and six hours after the Cairo had 
sailed. The latter thus had a lead of sixty 
miles, but as she was required to stop at var- 
ious points to discharge freight and deliver 
the mails, it was not unreasonable to expect 



10 FROM THE JUNGLE 

we would overtake her before she had gone 
any great distance. The engineer of the 
Abbas Pasha was John Flett, a canny 
young Scotchman who never before had 
been up the Nile but who, I was glad to see, 
had the nerve and courage of his race. I 
explained to him we must reach the Dal 
at the same time, at least, as my rival. I 
told him we must go at night as well as 
by day, that we must carry every pound 
of steam and get every bit of speed possible 
out of the old craft. 

'T fear we cannot do more than six 
miles an hour," he answered. "The Abbas 
Pasha is old. Her engine and boiler w^ere 
taken out of a steamer that was destroyed 
during the war against the Mahdi. We 
must stop at certain points to renew our 
wood supply. I have some coal aboard, 
but it is only enough for about ten hours' 
steaming." 

*'Well," I responded, ''do your damndest — 
and angels can do no more." 

I asked Flett to inform the engine watch 



FROM THE JUNGLE 11 

and the men at the wheel to keep a sharp 
lookout for the Dal. 

"Tell them," I said, "that the man who 
first sights the Dal will get a hundred 
piastres, and that if the boat reaches the 
Dal before either the Cairo or the Kongo, 
a hundred piastres will be divided among 
the engine room watch." 

Never had such a thing been heard of 
by the Arabs. In the first place, they could 
not understand the need of haste. Such 
strange foreigners who were in a hurry to 
connect with the Dal when they could 
reach her without trouble in a few days 
anyhow, were beyond their understanding. 
When I chartered the boat, they looked 
at me with wide open eyes, but they thought 
I was only a crazy American mil- 
honaire with more money than brains; 
and in their part of the world a certain 
sanctity hangs around mad people. But 
when they were told of the reward, they 
were quite satisfied of my lunacy. The 
amount of money I offered- represented 



12 FROM THE JUNGLE 

riches to them, though as a matter of fact, 
the most any one man could receive was 
less than a dollar. The effect of the re- 
ward, however, was to cause the engine 
watch to flood the machinery with oil, 
to make the stokers use wood with an 
unsparing hand to keep the steam up to 
the very highest notch on the gauge, and 
to induce the men at the wheel to strain 
their eyes looking for the smoke of the 
Dal. 

Within half an hour after leaving Khar- 
toum, we swept by Omdurman with its 
mud-built huts, the last stronghold of 
the Khalifa in his war against Great 
Britain. The negroes were bathing happily 
or washing linen in the shallow waters. 
We steadily forged up the stream, passing 
the tree which has attained historic recogni- 
tion because General Gordon once slept 
in its shade. The sun gradually sank 
below the far off hills, illuminating the 
desert with its gold and carmine rays, 
and the twilight brought the ineffable 



FROM THE JUNGLE 13 

hush of the wilderness. Thousands of 
duck whirred across the stream. Stately 
herons in snow-white dress flapped in 
front of the boat. The stars came out one 
by one, and low on the horizon appeared 
the Southern Cross. 

We had a dinner which could not have 
been excelled in New York. The cook 
given us by Captain Bond was a past 
master in his art. The boys, in their 
white gowns, held to the body by brilliant 
red sashes, and wearing white turbans 
about their heads, reminded us that we 
were in the midst of Africa. Steadily the 
ship moved on, its paddles singing a song 
that was music to the ears. After dinner 
the ''skipper," as we affectionately desig- 
nated Flett, myself, who, as the Commander- 
in-Chief of the expedition, received the 
proud title of Admiral, Gardner, appointed 
the Commissary General, and Sturdevant, 
named "Doctor" because he had laid in 
a stock of medicines, gathered on the deck 
and sang lustily, though discordantly, to 



14 FROM THE JUNGLE 

keep up our spirits. At ten o'clock we 
turned in to dream about races of all kinds 
and how we were beaten to the wire by 
the fraction of a hair. 

When we awoke the next morning, Flett 
informed us that the Reis, which is the 
Arabic name for pilot in the Khartoum 
region, had told him we had passed the 
Cairo during the night. It did not seem 
true. With a lead of sixty miles and a 
speed four miles faster than the Abbas 
Pasha, it was incomprehensible that we 
could have overtaken the mail steamer. 
Flett had been only three months in the 
Sudan. His knowledge of Arabic was 
slightly better than my own, and I did 
not know a single word. We got hold of 
an Arabic-English dictionary. With a 
great deal of trouble, we framed a sentence 
asking if the Reis were sure he had sighted 
the Cairo. He proved to be a man of real 
inteUigence. He quickly understood, or 
at least seemed to understand our out- 
landish pronunciation. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 15 

"Eyah, eyali," he replied. "Cairo"— 
and he pointed down the stream. 

'T don't beheve him," said Flett, throw- 
ing cold water on our enthusiasm. 'T 
have learned this much about the Sudanese 
— they always tell you what you want to 
know and agree with you no matter how 
preposterous the suggestion you make." 

We had passed from the sandy banks 
of the Nile and were now gliding along a 
rippling avenue framed in refreshing green. 
The papyrus swamps and the doura fields 
alternated with a tangled growth of bushes 
and trees. The land teemed with hfe. 
Literally thousands of birds rested on the 
banks or whirred above the trees. Flett 
lovingly handled his shot gun, but shooting 
from boats is forbidden by the steamer 
regulations and we had no time to stop. 

Shortly after noon, we arrived at a vil- 
lage called Dueim. As we approached, 
we saw the Cairo tied to the bank. I 
sought the Reis. 

''Cairo," I exclaimed, pointing to the 
vessel. 



16 FROM THE JUNGLE 

"Eyah, eyah," he said in a satisfied tone 
of voice. I turned in the direction whence 
we had come. I pointed to him, then I 
pointed down the stream. "Cairo," I said. 

He shook his head, spoke vohibly in 
Arabic and turned toward Dueim, saying 
*'Cairo." It was evident he minded not 
the He he had told in the morning and was 
perfectly content with having calmed my 
mind for a few hours at least. 

We held a consultation of war on the 
Abbas Pasha. Should we land or should 
we not.^ We voted against going ashore 
until the cook reported that the meat was 
spoiled and he must have a sheep. There 
was nothing to do but to run to the town. 
Not a sign of life showed on the Cairo. 
My rival hid himself in his cabin for the 
probable purpose of confusing us. We 
jumped ashore. I hastened to the tele- 
graph office to ascertain if any dispatches 
had arrived for Gardner from Miss Grif- 
fiths. The others sought to learn the plans 
of the Cairo's passenger. A kindly Greek 



FROM THE JUNGLE 17 

merchant volunteered to ascertain the situa- 
tion. In a few minutes he came back. 

"The American has not left the Cairo/' he 
said. ''He realizes unless he charters the 
Cairo, he will be beaten. He has telegraphed 
back to Khartoum saying he will pay any 
price they demand for the vessel. You will 
have three hours' start of him if you leave at 
once, even if he does get the Cairo. This 
is the time when the people in Khartoum 
take their siestas and his telegram won't 
be read until five o'clock." 

We dashed back to the Abbas Pasha. 
I frantically blew the whistle for everybody 
to come aboard. The cook failed to respond. 
There was more strong language used at 
that moment than has ever been employed 
on a whaler in the South Seas. At last 
the cook appeared hauling two reluctant 
sheep. Some of the crew jumped ashore, 
grabbed the baa-ing animals in their arms, 
and threw them aboard. The lines were 
cast off. As we were getting under way, 
a man, wearing the official fez, rushed 



18 FROM THE JUNGLE 

down to the bank and cried to us to 
stop. 

''We must go back," said Flett. 

''We'll do nothing of the kind," I com- 
manded. "We are going up the Nile as 
fast as we can go, and we stop for no one." 

W^e sought the cook, who could speak 
a little French. 

"W'hat does that man want.^" I asked. 

"He wants to be paid for milk," he re- 
plied. I could not understand this. I 
repeated what he said to Flett. "Milk," 
repeated Flett. "He's a customs officer, 
and perhaps your rival has arranged with 
him to hold up us." 

"Well, he won't hold us up," I retorted. 
"Up the Nile we go, and we'll settle with 
that man when we come back." 

We left Dueim behind us, with the native 
swearing dire vengeance. A bend of the 
stream hid the town and him from view. 
At least we had gotten off ahead of the 
Cairo and were that much nearer our goal. 

The telegraph stations along the Nile 



FROM THE JUNGLE 19 

are from sixty to one hundred miles apart. 
We began to figure where we might meet 
the Dal. My two colleagues were optimistic. 

'Tie can't beat us now," they said. 
^'We're ahead of him. He can't overtake 
us until late tonight or tomorrow morning 
and we can go as fast as the Kongo." 

"That's all very well," I repHed, "but 
you don't know your man. He will get 
the Cairo which can beat us by four miles 
an hour. It is for us to make as great 
a distance as possible and hope that when 
he comes up with the Dal, he will have 
to come down stream with her and thus 
bring Mr. Roosevelt nearer to us with 
every turn of the paddle wheel." 

Sturdevant and Gardner discovered we 
had no American flag to fly over the Abbas 
Pasha. They cut some red and white 
strips from pieces of cotton cloth and upon 
a blue square began to sew stars. They 
soon tired of attaching forty-six stars to 
the blue and finally compromised on nine 
which they marked in pencil, "one to forty- 



20 FROM THE JUNGLE 

six." While they were so occupied, I was 
busily engaged typeing a paper called, "The 
Nileist," which gave lurid accounts of the 
dangers of travel in mid Africa, contained 
wireless telegrams from the Cairo and the 
Dal and described at great length the 
sewing circle and the gossip exchanged 
aboard the Abbas Pasha. In the midst 
of this entertaining work, the steamer 
stopped. There was an exclamation of 
despair. Everybody rushed below to see 
what was the matter. The engineer pointed 
to the paddle wheel. One of the paddles 
had broken under the unusual strain. Flett 
hastily drew out the pieces of the board 
and signalled "go ahead full speed." Steam 
was spurting out of cracks in the boiler. 
The crew was watching the steam gauge 
with anxious eyes, ready to jump for the 
water the moment the boiler might burst. 
Night fell with the suddenness of the 
tropics. We again had song on the deck. 
The assistant engineer interrupted our glee 
with the sad intelligence that the wood 



FROM THE JUNGLE 21 

was running low and we would have to 
stop to replenish our supply. There was 
a groan of despair from all of us. At one 
o'clock in the morning we reached Goz 
Abu Goma. Lying along side the bank 
was the Kongo, steam up, ready to depart 
upon the instant. It was necessary to go 
to the telegraph station to obtain any dis- 
patches Miss Griffiths might have sent. 
I went overboard in water and slime up 
to my knees. The others, more careful, 
were carried ashore on the backs of blacks. 
We found a man who knew the way to the 
telegraph station. He led us along the 
railroad track. We stumbled in the dark- 
ness, following a lantern whose light in- 
tensified the gloom. At last we reached 
the office. A sleepy Egyptian answered 
our repeated knocks. We had difficulty 
in making him understand what we wanted. 
Finally, he handed out a dispatch ad- 
dressed to Gardner. It contained good 
news. Roosevelt had departed from his 
itinerary and was coming down the Nile 



22 FROM THE JUNGLE 

faster than he had arranged in order to 
reach Khartoum before Mrs. Roosevelt and 
their daughter arrived. 

We hastened back to the Abbas Pasha. 
As we were backing from the bank into the 
stream, the Cairo appeared. 

"He's chartered the Cairo," I exclaimed. 
There was a hail in iVrabic from the enemy's 
ship. 

'T know what they're up to," exclaimed 
Flett. *'They are trying to bribe our men." 

I blew the whistle continuously to pre- 
vent conversation. The Cairo stopped. 
We hastened up the stream, our joy at 
getting away only dampened by the knowl- 
edge that we would have to run into the bank 
in a few hours for wood. Just as dawn was 
breaking, we reached the wood station. The 
Cairo had not yet come in sight. "Perhaps 
he had to transfer to the Kongo," said 
one of my confreres hopefully. I was sure 
he was wrong. W^e offered rewards for 
haste to the natives putting wood aboard. 
When the last logs were disappearing in 



FROM THE JUNGLE 2,3 

the hold, tlie Cairo and the Kongo holli 
came m view. As we were leaving the 
station, they swept by us, seeming to have 
the speed of the Lusitania. We tried to 
make a short cut to get aliead of them. 

The Abbas Pasha suddenly struck a shoal 
and stuck fast. The paddle wheels turned 
astern. After a few minutes, we were off 
again. We continued the effort to cut 
across the stream. Another shoal caught 
us. There was a heart-rending quiet. 
Again the wheels moved backwards. A 
quarter of an hour elapsed before we were 
in deep water. This time we decided to 
follow the channel. In an hour the Cairo 
had disappeared around a bend in the 
stream and we were just coming alongside 
the Kongo. 

There was grief aboard the Abbas Pasha. 
The next telegraph station was ninety 
miles to the southward. "If the Cairo 
meets the Dal sixty miles above Renk," 
I calculated, "our rival can get hold of 
Mr. Roosevelt, return to Renk, and beat 



M FROM THE JUNGLE 

us with his dispatch by a day. If the 
Cairo meets the Dal one hundred and 
fifty miles above Renk, he will make for 
the telegraph station in that neighborhood 
and beat us so badly that we won't be 
able to hold up our heads." 

Gardner and Sturdevant began to laugh. 
"He's at it again," said Gardner, tapping 
his head, and looking at me significantly. 
"I tell you," said Sturdevant seriously, 
"the Lord is on our side. We will win." 

The paddle wheels thrashed the waters, 
sounding in my ears a mournful dirge of 
defeat. The beauties of the landscape 
had no appeal for me. Night soon blotted 
out the scenery, its blackness a pall over 
my hopes. We were almost thrown from 
our chairs as the Abbas Pasha struck the 
bank. The paddle wheels were reversed, 
the crew jumped into the shallow water 
and pushed with their backs. After a 
heart-breaking wait we began to move 
astern. In a few minutes we were again 
moving up stream. Then another paddle 



FROM THE JUNGLE 25 

broke into flinders and the engine had to 
be stopped to permit the removal of the 
pieces. There were not half a dozen paddles 
left in the starboard wheel. Once more 
we got under way. There were no songs 
after dinner that night. Instead everyone 
retired at an early hour to get as much rest 
as possible since we expected to arrive 
at the wood station below Renk at mid- 
night, would stay there an hour taking 
aboard fuel, and two hours later would 
reach Renk. 

I was awakened from a sound sleep by 
Gardner. 

"We are getting the wood," he said. 
"There is a British gun boat alongside. 
The captain says the Dal is one hundred 
miles from Renk heading down stream, 
and we ought to meet her sometime to- 
morrow." 

My spirits rose. I hastened on deck to 
confirm the news, but the gun boat had 
slipped away in the darkness. The last 
log was being put aboard. Flett gave 



26 FROM THE JUNGLE 

orders to cast off, the Abbas Pasha again 
began to move, and at our tremendous 
speed of six miles we resumed our stern 
chase of the Cairo. 

In an hour we were at Renk. The tele- 
graph office was a quarter of a mile inland. 
It was necessary to get any dispatches 
Miss Griffiths may have sent. The three 
correspondents, with cold chills running 
down their backs, stumbled through the 
gloom, fearing at any moment that a lion 
or some other wild beast would bound 
upon them. It was a relief to reach the 
stockade enclosing straw-thatched huts. 
The operator was finally aroused. He 
handed Gardner a dispatch. The informa- 
tion it contained gave us joy. It confirmed 
the news of the commander of the gun 
boat that Roosevelt was coming more 
quickly down the Nile than we had be- 
lieved. We hurriedly returned to the 
Abbas Pasha, our feet on wings. The 
chances of our meeting the Dal at least at 
the same time as the Cairo were improved. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 27 

The Abbas Pasha pushed out into the 
stream. We sought our beds, expecting 
a strenuous morrow. Just before dayhght, 
I woke up, seized a pair of opera glasses 
and hastened to the bridge. Three of the 
four men of the watch were asleep. As 
dawn broke the Dal came in view with 
the Cairo making a turning to come down 
with her. It was not until later that we 
learned the Cairo had only one pilot aboard, 
that he had been without sleep for thirty- 
six hours, that it had been deemed necessary 
to tie up at nights to avoid the danger of 
running aground, and that at Renk alone 
eight hours had been lost. 

Everybody on board the Abbas Pasha 
sang a Te Deum. We scrambled into our 
clothes. Within half an hour, we could 
descry Colonel Roosevelt on the deck of 
his ship. Our hats were w^aved frantically. 
The home-made American flag with its 
"1-46" stars flew gaily at the masthead. 
Colonel Roosevelt swung his helmet in 
response. The bearded Cunninghame 



28 FROM THE JUNGLE 

pointed to the bank. We caught his mean- 
ing. The Abbas Pasha swung into the 
shore, fifty feet below the point the Dal 
touched. We jumped into the papyrus 
swamp and pushed our way through the 
thorny brush. Passing over a barge lashed 
alongside the Dal, we mounted the com- 
panion way of the latter vessel and there 
on the deck with hand outstretched and 
a smile of welcome stood the ex-President 
of the United States. 

It was in this way that I met Colonel 
Roosevelt. 



II 

THE SUDAN 

"There was a hunter and he killed. And he was great in tiic 
eyes of the village." — A Sudanese Saying. 

T LOOKED deep into the eyes of this man, 
whose disappearance in the jungle liad 
intensified the interest of the American 
people in his personality. He was in the 
high spirits of perfect health. He had lost 
the careworn look which the closing days 
in the White House had produced. His 
face was brown, and his moustache, 
lightened by the sun, showed a few more 
gray hairs. His jaws were clean of fat, 
and his well-worn khaki hung loosely on 
his muscular frame. His head was covered 
by an olive green helmet, from which 
dangled a neck cloth whose colored stripes 
represented the hues of the flag under 
which his Rough Regiment swept to the 
top of San Juan Hill. He told us 
29 



30 FROM THE JUNGLE 

that he was glad to see us, that he wel- 
comed us as the vanguard of the civiliza- 
tion he had left a year before. He listened 
to the news from home as interpreted by 
each correspondent, and then took us one 
by one into his stateroom where views 
were exchanged which necessarily were 
regarded as confidential. For publication, 
Colonel Roosevelt authorized the state- 
ment that he had nothing to say on Ameri- 
can politics or any phase or incident thereof, 
that he would give no interviews, and any- 
thing purporting to be in the nature of an 
interview with him could be accepted as 
false as soon as it appeared. 

Here was a tremendous reward for the 
long and expensive journey we had under- 
taken! The iVmerican people were pal- 
pitating with eagerness to be informed of 
the Colonel's views on the rise of Insurgency 
in the Republican party, the dismissal of 
Gifford Pinchot from the office of Chief 
Forester of the United States, the Conserva- 
tion scandal and whether or not the dis- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 31 

tinguished hunter-naturalist believed that 
William Howard Taft was carrying out 
the Roosevelt policies in the way they were 
interpreted by their author. Mr. Roosevelt 
was perfectly willing to talk about his 
hunting experiences, to take us aboard the 
barge and show us the skulls and bones 
of the rare animals he and his son Kermit 
and other members of the party had killed, 
to line up the blacks who were his attend- 
ants, and to tell of the peculiarities and 
faithful devotion of these barbarians. But 
politics, no, not a word. That was for- 
bidden ground and w^hen the Colonel 
snapped his teeth over a question which 
trended in the direction of such matters, 
the interrogator deemed it wise to hasten 
back to the safe haven of African hunting 
experiences. During the entire time I 
was with the Colonel, he was extremely 
careful to avoid discussing politics for 
publication; and the reports which from 
time to time were printed about his atti- 
tude, had no more foundation than the 



32 FROM THE JUNGLE 

mental activity of the men who created 
them. 

But, realizing that the American people 
were interested in knowing every detail 
of the experiences of their former President, 
the four correspondents (for our rival 
too, had come aboard the Dal) were 
anxious to reach the telegraph station at 
Renk at the earliest possible moment. 
My problem — and this, of course, was the 
key to the whole struggle — was to get to the 
wire first so that my matter could not be 
detained until too late for jjublication the 
next morning. Unluckily the Abbas Pasha 
broke down completely the moment we 
reached the Dal. The Cairo apparently was 
in excellent steaming condition and it was 
perfectly evident if she were used as a 
dispatch boat, we would be lost. It proved 
fortunate that there were many things 
Mr. Roosevelt wanted to talk about. It 
was not until some hours had elapsed 
that he was willing for any of us to leave, 
and then we were so close to Renk that 



FROM THE JUNGLE 38 

it was deemed inadvisable for the Dal to 
stop to make the transfer of our friend, the 
enemy, to his own boat. When we reached 
Renk, the entire population, wearing smiles 
to cover their nakedness, were assembled 
on the bank. I thought the gathering had 
occurred to greet the Colonel, but it sub- 
sequently appeared the natives were hold- 
ing a market and knew nothing of the 
coming of the foremost iimerican. When 
Mr. Roosevelt first arrived at Mombasa, 
an enterprising correspondent, in order to 
put a touch of color in his dispatch, cabled 
that the visitor had been named Bwana 
Tumbo, which translated means ''The 
Master with the Stomach." As a matter 
of fact, the Colonel always was addressed 
by his men as Bwana Makuba, which 
signifies "The Big Master." 

The correspondents jumped ashore and 
raced to the telegraph office. Our rival 
w^as hopelessly beaten on land. We laid 
down dispatches on the telegraph desk 
and demanded that they be sent im- 



34 FROM THE JUNGLE 

mediately. If the records of the Cable 
Office in New York and Chicago be ex- 
amined, it will be found that the dispatches 
of the correspondents aboard the Abbas 
Pasha arrived prior to that sent by the 
charterer of the Cairo. 

Colonel Roosevelt landed at Renk and 
walked among the natives, who soon 
learned he was a mighty hunter and gave 
him the respect which such a reputation 
commands in Africa. In an hour, he was 
ready to resume his journey down the 
stream. Before leaving, he invited the 
correspondents to dinner aboard his boat 
and told us where we should meet him at 
the hour fixed. 

That dinner is one which will live in the 
memory of every man who partook of it. 
Night had fallen when we boarded the 
Dal. The blacks in attendance upon the 
Roosevelt party were crooning a native 
song. The current of the Nile lapped the 
side of the Dal, singing mournfully the 
story of Africa's savagery. The table 



FROM THE JUNGLE 35 

was set upon the deck of the barge. 
Colonel Roosevelt sat at the head of the 
table, his face silhouetted against the 
lurid light of the flaming papyrus swamps. 
Kermit, a young man of twenty-one, lean 
and vigorous, occupied a seat next to my 
place, and at different points along the 
board were Cunninghame, who knows 
Africa better than any other man, Doctor 
Mearns, who was the surgeon and naturalist 
of the expedition, and the four corres- 
pondents. We talked of the past and 
present, — of Africa and America, of 
savagery and civilization. We learned of 
hair-breadth escapes during the hunt, 
listened to the Colonel correcting himself 
for using the word "bully," an exclama- 
tion, he said which should be used only 
by children and ex-presidents. He des- 
cribed a station which he visited near 
Gondokoro, as a transplanted Emporia, 
Kansas, done in ebony. He told of a letter 
he had recived condemning him for killing 
the harmless, inoffensive rhinoceros. 'T 



36 FROM THE JUNGLE 

wish the author of that letter could be 
in the thick grass in front of a charging 
rhinoceros," he remarked, "and like then 
to have his judgment as to whether the 
beast were harmless and inoffensive." He 
spoke of the various missions he had visited, 
of the white souls and dauntless courage 
of these agents of Christianity who are 
martyrs to the call of duty. He declared 
with pride the expedition had been a 
huge scientific success; that thirteen thou- 
sand faunal specimens and more than 
thirty thousand floral specimens had been 
secured, the collection constituting the 
finest that ever had gone out of Africa. 

It will gratify the critics of the Colonel 
to know that not a shot was fired wantonly; 
that game was killed only for the table and 
for specimen purposes. 

With cordial good-nights, the corres- 
pondents returned to their boats, and at 
the request of Colonel Roosevelt pro- 
ceeded directly to Khartoum. He did not 
desire to reach that point too long in ad- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 37 

vance of Mrs. Roosevelt, who was due 
on March 14. Mr. Roosevelt proposed 
to use the intervening time in finishing 
his book on his hunting experiences so 
that he might devote himself whole-hearted- 
ly to the thousand and one things which 
w^ould arise w^hen he arrived at Khartoum. 
The Abbas Pasha and the Cairo, their 
mission done, left the Dal, which had been 
their quarry, and, aided by the swift current 
of the Nile, speeded back toward the 
British City. The lights on the Roosevelt 
steamer went out one by one, until only 
its side lamps w^ere showing. The huge 
bulk seemed to be set in the midst of flame, 
for the papyrus grass continued to burn 
fiercely. A bend of the river shut the con- 
flagration from our view and only the 
reflection in the sky appeared. That, too, 
began to dim, and stronger and stronger 
became the light of the moon and the 
brilliant stars. It was a night 

Where poetry rode the heavens, 
And all the world was bright. 



38 FROM THE JUNGLE 

The return trip was a romance. There 
were hippopotami and birds at which to 
shoot, the thanksgiving service of prayer, 
(the last day was Sunday), when I read 
the bible which Flett had treasured for 
itself as well as because it was his mother's 
gift; the beautiful sunset, which burnished 
Khartoum in gold, and finally the arrival, 
with whistles blowing and our flag (do 
you remember the 1-46 stars?) flying 
triumphantly at the masthead. As soon 
as we landed, I mounted a donkey, the 
vehicle of northern Africa, and with vocifer- 
ous "arrhs" galloped along the dark road 
to the House of Slatin Pasha, Inspector 
General of the Sudan, who had been desig- 
nated by the British Government to re- 
ceive Colonel Roosevelt. I had been re- 
quested by the latter to explain to Slatin 
Pasha that while he appreciated the hos- 
pitality of the Gordon Palace, he knew 
the Sirdar and Lady Wingate were absent 
and therefore did not care to put the 
authorities to the trouble of opening the 
house for him and his family. Slatin 



FROM THE JUNGLE 39 

Pasha, the man who for thirteen long years 
had been the prisoner of the Khahfa, who 
suffered untold agony in the filthy and 
crowded enclosure in which for years he 
had been confined, who for a year and a 
half w^as compelled to undergo the in- 
dignity and physical torture of running 
barefoot at the heels of the Khalifa's 
arab, and whose escape is still a marvel 
to those wdio are familiar with his descrip- 
tion — this man whom I expected to find 
a physical wreck proved to be a splendid 
specimen of the Caucasian race. Short 
and stocky, muscular, without doubt a 
mine of action, he excused himself from 
his dinner guests and escorted me to his 
library. His speech showed a trace of 
foreign accent, revealing that he was not 
British born, and as he talked I recalled 
that he was an Austrian subject, a member 
of the nobility of the Aristocratic Haps- 
burg Empire, whom troubles at home had 
forced to seek a congenial life of adventure 
in the Sudan. Slatin Pasha's experience 



40 FROM THE JUNGLE 

had not taught him to place trust in his 
fellow-man, and it was only after detailed 
explanation that I was able to make him 
believe I really brought a message from 
Colonel Roosevelt. I informed him I 
was to meet the Colonel the next morning 
at Gordon's tree and that I would be glad 
to assure him of the acquiescence of the 
acting Sirdar in the change of plans. 
Slatin Pasha, however, insisted that the 
Palace was fully prepared to receive the 
Roosevelt Party, and requested me to 
say to the former President that he would 
be deeply disappointed if for any reason 
it was not used. 

Gordon's tree is seven miles from 
Khartoum. Early the next morning, 
mounted upon a spirited arab and accom- 
panied by the proprietor of the Hotel 
jogging on a camel, and a donkey carrying 
a huge sack of mail, I rode through the 
sunlit streets out into the boundless desert. 
The air was exhilarating, and my steed 
literally pranced over the sand. Mirages 



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FROM THE JUNGLE 41 

inverted the huts of a distant village and 
made the landscape a sea of glassy, run- 
ning water. Far away, we could discern 
the green bank of the Nile, and occasionally 
the flash of the sun upon the surface of 
the stream recalled to mind the African 
father of life. An hour's hard riding brought 
us to a ridge from the height of which we 
looked down upon the river. Swinging 
in towards Gordon's tree was the Dal. 
We galloped to the meeting place, arriving 
just as a small boat was putting off, carry- 
ing Kermit, armed with a shotgun, and 
Dr. Mearns, provided with a small hamper, 
both bent upon a last expedition in Africa, 
Colonel Roosevelt shouted "good-morn- 
ing," and grimaced at the mail bag. In 
a few minutes we were aboard. I recited 
the conversation with Slatin Pasha and 
introduced the hotel man. Then the mail 
was dumped upon the table, and the 
Colonel and I began to dispose of the several 
hundred odd letters which it contained. 
These letters were odd not only in 



42 FROM THE JUNGLE 

number but in character. They related 
to everything under the sun. They in- 
cluded disquisitions on the political situa- 
tion in the United States, requests for the 
Colonel to write short articles on his hunt- 
ing experiences, demands for tiger skins 
and tiger claws, "when there are no tigers 
in Africa," as the Colonel remarked, and 
for other mementoes of his stay in the dark 
continent; invitations to palaces of Em- 
perors and Kings and the houses of the 
great in Europe; and inquiries as to his 
plans upon his return home, particularly 
whether he would not speak in certain 
cities on the issues concerning the people. 
There was one correspondent, living in 
the Azore Islands, who enclosed post cards 
with his letter, showing the American fleet 
making its tour of the world. '*A most 
persistent person," observed the Colonel. 
"Every post has brought me the same kind 
of letter and the same picture cards." 

The mail was disposed of in the course 
of an hour. Kermit and Dr. Mearns re- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 43 

turned with a number of small birds, 
snails, branches from Gordon's tree and 
other samples of the vegetation of the 
neighborhood. Then the Dal got under- 
way for Khartoum. 

As we approached Omdurman, which 
lies a few miles up the river from Gordon's 
capital, we sighted a small launch, flying 
the British and Egyptian flags at the stern. 
The commander of the Dal reported to 
Colonel Roosevelt that Slatin Pasha, Wil- 
son Bey, Governor of Khartoum and Cap- 
tain Clayton, aide-de-camp to the Sirdar, 
were aboard and had signalled to be re- 
ceived. The Dal slowed down and finally 
stopped. The launch came alongside. 
The three British officials jumped on the 
lower deck and then mounted the com- 
panion way where the Former President 
was waiting to receive them. 

"I am really delighted to meet you. 
General," he said to Slatin. He as cor- 
dially greeted his other hosts, and then 
returned to the Inspector General. He 



44 FROM THE JUNGLE 

spoke with familiarity of the latter's ex- 
perience among the dervishes, astonishing 
him with his reference to scenes which 
Slatin thought he alone remembered. 
''Do not forget that I have read your 
book," the Colonel explained to the British 
officer. The three men mounted to the 
upper deck of the Dal. There were found 
the Roosevelt blacks, dressed in the cast- 
off clothes of the party, uncomfortable 
but happy in anticipation of the novel 
experiences awaiting them. Never before 
had they seen a city like Omdurman; 
never before had they seen anything ap- 
proaching Khartoum. It was indeed great 
magic, the magic of the white man. 

Flags dipped on boats and over the 
various houses along the river bank as 
the Dal moved toward the stucco building, 
painted yellow, which is known as Gordon's 
Palace. Colonel Roosevelt was less in- 
terested in the river scenes and the appear- 
ance of his temporar}^ abiding place than 
in a matter nearer to his heart. "Where 



FROM THE JUNGLE 45 

is the railroad station?" he asked Shitin 
Pasha. The latter pointed it out, adding 
tactfully that the train would arrive on 
time and that the Sirdar's yacht would 
convey him across the river to meet his 
wife and daughter. 

I will not lift the veil of that meeting 
or attempt to describe the happiness that 
radiated from the Roosevelt family when 
they were once more united. Their separa- 
tion had lasted for one long year. Hus- 
band and wife had not changed in each 
other's eyes, but the father saw^ a fresh, 
charming flower of womanhood in his 
daughter, and the mother a modest, manly 
young fellow, with a budding moustache, 
in her son. Picture to yourself reunion 
with your loved ones after a year's absence, 
and you will realize the deep joy the Roose- 
velts experienced when they met by the 
side of the puffing train in tropical Africa. 

Those halcyon days in Khartoum! The 
precious hours of family companionship 
sandwiched in between the barbaric and 



46 FROM THE JUNGLE 

civilized functions given in honor of the 
former President and Mrs. Roosevelt and 
the sight-seeing expeditions with their 
vivid contrasts of savagery and modernity, 
with their revelation of the hardship and 
strife the British underwent in order to 
give peace and prosperity to the several 
million blacks who survived the devastat- 
ing rule of the Khalifa, and with their 
details of the diplomacy which was neces- 
sary to bring about the establishment 
and insure the maintenance of a govern- 
ment which the childlike temperament 
of the natives could understand and ap- 
preciate. Escorted by a squadron of black 
cavalry, officered by Egyptians, the Roose- 
velts, on camels, inspected the battlefield 
of Kerreri, where the power of the Khalifa 
was broken by the military genius of 
Kitchener. Through the eyes of SI a tin 
Pasha they turned back the pages of Om- 
durman and saw that city of sixty thousand 
Sudanese under the merciless domination 
of the Khalifa, and with their own oained 



FROM THE JUNGLE 47 

impressions of the barbaric splendor and 
in the civilized view the mean though 
sanitary mode of living. They witnessed 
a gymkhana, held in the midst of the 
desert, where the smart society of Khartoum 
engaged in horse races, and blindfolded 
drew strange and weird pictures supposed 
to resemble animals. They enjoyed the 
hospitality of Mrs. Asser, a delightful 
American woman, who as the wife of the 
Adjutant-General of the Sudan, was the 
ranking lady of the barbaric land. And 
the last night was made eventful by a 
dinner in honor of the former President, 
given at the Sudan Club. The tables were 
set under the stars, and the boys, in white 
robes and red sashes, served the guests 
with food which would have been approved 
by Epicurus. The hundred men present, 
civilians and officers of the army and navy, 
every one of whom is spending his life un- 
selfishly in this distant region, listened with 
rapt attention to Colonel Roosevelt's en- 
thusiastic portrayal of the work they had 



48 FROM THE JUNGLE 

accomplished, his declaration of belief in 
British civilization and the character of the 
government the Sudan is enjoying, and 
finally his promise to tell the people of 
England of the debt they owe to their 
sons in this savage region. 

Is it any wonder that Colonel Roosevelt 
left the Sudan carrying with him the 
regard and best wishes not only of the 
white men laboring therein but of the 
intelligent natives who have profited by 
the comincc of British rule? 



Ill 

EGYPT 

And Antony came to EgjT)t, and Egypt fell down before 
him; for Antony possessed the Queen and the Queen possessed 
the land.— Egyptian History. 

n^HE fine dust of the desert filtered 
through the double wmdows of the 
special car in which Colonel Roosevelt and 
his family were making the journey from 
Khartoum to Wadi Haifa, on the Nile. 
The bluish green glass was drawn low at 
the windows to keep out the painful glare 
of the sun. On either side of the railroad 
track extended the sea of sand, relieved 
only by the strange mirages which deceived 
the imagination and made the passengers 
believe they were running along the bank 
of the Nile. Though Slatin Pasha had been 
left behind at Khartoum, Colonel Roose- 
velt remembered the way he took to effect 
his escape, and pointed out to his party 

49 



50 FROM THE JUNGLE 

where the fugitive hid by day and the path 
he took by night. But remarkable as was 
this feat of a man fleeing from the tortures 
of thirteen years, it of course had no com- 
parison with that of the genius which de- 
stroyed the power of the KhaHfa and 
conquered the Sudan. In those trying days 
of the war Kitchener conducted, it was the 
iron way the engineers constructed across 
the burning waste that made victory pos- 
sible for the army depending upon it for 
water and food and military supplies. 

Wadi Haifa was reached after night had 
fallen. The British officers and their wives 
at this outpost were waiting on the platform 
to receive the great American. They 
escorted him to the bank of the Nile, where 
a special government steamer lay alongside 
the bank. The Roosevelt family, Lawrence 
Abbott, one of the editors of the Outlook 
who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt and her 
daughter to Khartoum, and myself, 
boarded the Ibis, as the steamer was called, 
leaving W. Robert Foran of the Associated 



FROM THE JUNGLE 51 

Press, A. J. Lambert of the New York Amer- 
ican, Hamilton Fyfe of the London Daily 
Mail, besides Miss Griffiths and Messrs. 
Gardner and Sturdevant, journahsts who 
had accompanied us from Khartoum to take 
the regular mail steamer which was to sail 
an hour later. It was a night ideal in its 
beauty. The crescent moon and the stars 
sent their faint light upon the stream and 
its green banks and the desert beyond, 
covering the water with a silvery sheen, 
toning down the vivid green of the Duora 
and shading the sand to a soft orange tint. 
For thirty-four hours we enjoyed the 
hospitality of the British government upon 
the Ibis. There were no incidents of an 
exciting character to mar the perfect tran- 
quility of this stage of the journey. What 
jolly times we had at the table! How 
everyone enjoyed the quips of the Colonel, 
the quiet humor of Mrs. Roosevelt, the 
dry wit of Miss Ethel, the ancient jokes 
of Mr. Abbott, furbished up to create 
a laugh, and the teasing of the irrepressible 



52 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Kermit. And this fun was the more re- 
freshing because it was interspersed be- 
tween discussions of serious things, such 
as the social problems which confronted 
the early Ptolemies, episodes in the lives 
of the great men of the past, and references 
to various incidents explanatory of the 
way in which progress in government had 
been brought about in the United States 
and other lands. 

Only one stop was made on this voyage 
of happiness. That was for a few hours 
at x\bu Simbel, which is regarded as the 
finest rock temple in the world, not ex- 
cepting any in India. The four colossal 
figures of Rameses the Great sat in serene 
majesty overlooking the Nile. Miss Roose- 
velt assumed the role of guide for the party, 
reading from Baedeker the description of 
the figures and interpreting the various 
scenes depicted on the walls of the chambers 
hewn out of the rock. The Colonel's 
indignation was aroused by the sight of 
initials cut into the rock. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 53 

''Had I my way here in Africa," said the 
Colonel, 'T should treat such vandals as 
we do the men who deface the natural 
scenery of Yellowstone Park. Wherever 
they might be, I would have them appre- 
hended and compel them, at their own 
expense, to return and remove every trace 
of their despicable work." 

The Egyptian government formally ex- 
tended its welcome to the Colonel upon his 
arrival at Shellal, the terminus of the rail- 
road running from Cairo. From the deck 
of our steamer we could see the half-buried 
ruins of Philae. The Roosevelt party 
was conveyed in a government launch to the 
historic island which is submerged as a 
result of the construction of the Assouan 
Dam. The Colonel inspected the dam with 
keen interest, and then visited the tombs 
excavated by General Grenfell, containing 
the mummies of the Egyptian princes of 
three thousand years ago. The for- 
mer president found in the tombs rep- 
resentations of the domestic life of those 



54 FROM THE JUNGLE 

days. Evidently the rulers were not above 
participating in the labors of their subjects, 
for there were carvings of the kings fishing 
with two-pronged spears or engaged in 
other occupations which men of the present 
day regard as menial. 

When the train stopped at Assouan 
on the way to Luxor from Shellal, large 
crowds of Americans, English and Egyp- 
tians assembled to get a glimpse of the dis- 
tinguished traveler. Colonel Roosevelt had 
discarded his khaki clothes at Khartoum 
and now wore a sack suit of gray which 
Mrs. Roosevelt had considerately brought 
to him. If the persons who saw him at 
Assouan expected he would appear in his 
hunting costume, they must have been 
greatly disappointed. He descended to 
the platform and clasped hands cordially 
with several Egyptian officers who pre- 
sented greetings from the authorities. To 
them he repeated what he had told officers 
of their nationality^ in Khartoum, that it 
was the duty of a soldier to be a soldier, 



FROM THE JUNGLE 55 

that it was the duty of a pohtician to be 
a pohtician, and that the two trades did 
not mix. It was sound advice to men 
trained in the profession of arms, some of 
whom were seeking to play the dual role 
against which the former President warned 
them. 

Americans and English came up and 
presented themselves, and a dozen amateur 
photographers snapped the Colonel every 
minute he was in sight. As the train was 
leaving, one ambitious camera fiend put 
his kodak against the window, expecting 
to get a picture of the party in the car. 
It seems hardly necessary to add that his 
effort was a failure, since the interior of 
the car was dark. 

I shall remember Luxor less for the 
ordinary tourist sights which the Roosevelts 
saw than because it was here that warning 
was given that if the former President, 
in the speech he was slated to deliver 
at the University in Cairo, denounced 
the assassination of Boutros- Pasha, the 



5Q FROM THE JUNGLE 

Egyptian premier, by a member of the 
Nationalist party, he might suffer the fate 
of that official. The warning came from 
a source worthy of credence: But if the 
Nationalists who inspired it expected to 
prevent Colonel Roosevelt from doing 
what he believed to be his duty they did 
not know the man. He dictated his 
speech during his stay at Luxor, and as I 
expected, it condemned assassination in 
terms that could give no comfort to the 
men who practiced it in the mistaken 
belief that it would aid their cause. Colonel 
Roosevelt has no sympathy for any move- 
ment which has to depend for success upon 
the assassin's knife or bomb. He had 
taken advantage of every opportunity to 
inform himself as to conditions in Egypt. 
He had talked with British officials, with 
American missionaries, and with Egyptians, 
inducing them to compare conditions in 
the time before Lord Cromer with those 
of the present. He saw the happiness and 
prosperity which British rule had produced. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 57 

He recalled that not for three thousand 
years had the Egyptians governed them- 
selves. He knew of the mongrel races 
which had flooded the land of the Pharaohs, 
of their admixture, and of their inexperience 
in self-government in consequence of their 
long subservience to superior peoples. 
With the ample foundation of historical 
knowledge he possessed, it was not difficult 
for him to build thereon an edifice of 
logical conclusions which could not be 
successfully rebutted. Written at Luxor, 
that speech was carefully studied from 
every point of view, and when delivered 
at Cairo represented the deliberate judg- 
ment of a man who knew his subject and 
who believed his comments thereon to 
be accurate. 

When a boy, Colonel Roosevelt, in com- 
pany with his father, visited Luxor. The 
memory of what he saw at that time was 
dimmed by the years. It was with the 
interest of a tourist just arrived there- 
fore that he again viewed the Temple 



58 FROM THE JUNGLE 

of Karnak in the mystic moonlight, the 
less imposing Temple of Luxor, and the 
tombs of the kings across the river. The 
government had assigned a celebrated 
Egyptologist to guide the Roosevelt party 
through these various scenes, and he con- 
fessed to astonishment at the extent of 
knowledge the former President displayed 
in connection with the period which the 
ruins represented. I have seen newspaper 
paragraphs describing Colonel Roosevelt 
as retiring to his room to read his Baedeker 
and emerging a few minutes later to amaze 
those with whom he talked with his 
familiarity with the history of the monu- 
ments. But I was a devout reader of 
Baedeker myself, and I heard the former 
President relate incidents of the reigns 
of the various rulers who had erected these 
monuments in commemoration of their 
achievements, that did not appear in this 
universal compendium. 

Colonel Roosevelt proved himself to be 
less interested in the ruins as ruins, than 



FROM THE JUNGLE 59 

in the story of the times which they re- 
vealed. He looks upon archaeology only 
as an aid to the increase of human knowl- 
edge of conditions of the society of an- 
tiquity, and as teaching lessons which 
properly observed will benefit the people 
of our generation. In a sense Mr. Roose- 
velt is a student, but above all he is a 
practical man of affairs. I believe he took 
more interest in visiting the Presbyterian 
branch mission for girls at Luxor than 
he did any of the relics of the past with 
which the neighborhood is strewn. His 
coming to this institution was an event 
in missionary work in Egypt. The Ameri- 
can flag waved in the light breeze over 
the building, and as he and Mrs. Roosevelt 
entered the school room, the Egyptian 
pupils, young women and girls, sang a song 
of welcome. The speech he made was the 
speech a man of his principles only could 
deliver. He believes firmly that one part 
of humanity cannot be raised while neglect- 
ing the other part; that it is idle to elevate 



60 FROM THE JUNGLE 

the man, unless the woman be elevated 
at the same time. In his view, no mission 
work or calling can succeed where the same 
effort is not made for the woman as for 
the man. In expressing these opinions. 
Colonel Roosevelt struck at the foundation 
of society in Mohammedan lands where 
the woman is placed on an inferior plane 
to the male. 

'In the long run," Mr. Roosevelt told 
the pupils, "a fig tree is judged by the fact 
that it produces figs and not thistles. 
Education must be practical and book 
knowledge is not all. You women must 
learn to cook and keep house, but at the 
same time you must have the literary 
knowledge and training of mind to enable 
you to take your proper place as counsellor 
of the families." 

Colonel Roosevelt regards this as a 
world-wide principle. He believes it should 
be applied in the United States as in every 
other land. And he uttered another truth 
which is worthy of repetition: 



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**A practical man without ideals," he 
declared, "is a curse. The greater his 
ability, the greater the curse. He who is 
an impractical idealist does not always 
attain the degree of being a curse, but 
invariably becomes a nuisance." 

Luxor was left behind, with its ruins 
and its cheering crowd in which American 
tourists largely figured, and twelve hours 
later the party arrived in Cairo. The 
American Ambassador to Turkey, and Mrs. 
Straus, the American Consul General and 
Mrs. Iddings, distinguished representatives 
of the British government, and high-placed 
Egyptians gathered about his car and 
gave him a royal greeting. The common 
people were packed in front of the 
station and cheered him heartily as 
he emerged from the entrance used only 
by the Khedive and royal visitors. The 
Colonel and his party made their head- 
quarters in the Egyptian capital at Shep- 
heards Hotel. Colonel Roosevelt promptly 
called upon the Khedive in the state car- 



62 FROM THE JUNGLE 

riage which the Egyptian ruler had placed 
at his disposal. As the distinguished 
visitor passed through the streets, leading 
to the Abdine palace, the people lining 
the sidewalk removed their red tarboushes 
and bowed respectfully, the British soldiers 
stationed before the headquarters of the 
Army of Occupation presented arms in 
salute, and the Egyptian bod^^guard of 
the Khedive, drawn up in front of the 
palace, paid formal military honors. Colonel 
Roosevelt, who was accompanied by Mr. 
Iddings, was met at the Palace entrance 
by the Chamberlain of His Highness, 
who escorted them up the broad staircase 
to the second floor where the Egyptian 
ruler was standing. *'I am very glad to 
have the honor of meeting you," the 
Khedive said, a salutation which the 
Colonel cordially returned. Mr. Roosevelt 
and Mr. Iddings were invited into a large 
reception room done in Empire style, 
the red and gold colors relieved by the 
yellow of the heavy brocade draperies. 



FROM THE JUNGLE GS 

Turkish coffee was served in porcelain 
cups, resting in gold holders encrusted 
with diamonds. The conversation passed 
from the hunting experiences of Colonel 
Roosevelt to irrigation and agriculture, 
and political conditions in Egypt. The 
Khedive usually makes an audience as 
short as possible, but on this occasion 
he detained Colonel Roosevelt half an 
hour and when he returned the call at the 
American diplomatic agency a short time 
later, he prolonged it for a similar 
period. 

While the Colonel and the Khedive 
were exchanging calls, Mrs. Roosevelt and 
her daughter and Mrs. Iddings were visit- 
ing the Khediva, a beautiful woman of 
about thirty years, with sad eyes and a 
pathetic manner, who, if all reports be 
true, is destined to be supplanted by an 
Austrian woman who now has first place 
in the affections of the Khedive. 

Colonel Roosevelt did the sights in and 
around Cairo as thoroughly .as those at 



64 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Luxor. He stood before the Sphinx in 
the moonlight, the representative of force- 
ful, strenuous America face to face with 
this image whose birth is lost in the mists 
of antiquity. He examined the Pyramids 
of Gizeh which rise in ghostly majesty 
near the Sphinx. The next day, he passed 
through the vast Necropolis of Sakara, 
six miles in extent, which once was covered 
with superbly decorated temples of huge 
proportions. Here he explored the tombs 
of the Apis, or sacred bull of the god Ptah, 
which lie in Stygian darkness below the 
Memphite desert. He inspected also the 
temple and tomb of Thy. This temple 
presents, in all probability, the best record 
of early Egyptian art. Colonel Roosevelt 
enjoyed pointing out beasts he had shot 
in central Africa which cannot be found 
in the northern region of the continent, 
showing the effect of the invasion of man 
upon animal life. 'T don't know what 
benefit an American politician would re- 
ceive from this sight-seeing," he observed 



FROM THE JUNGLE 65 

dryly, "but I know it gives me a great 
deal of enjoyment." 

While Colonel Roosevelt was calling 
upon the Khedive and British officials 
and dining with Sir Eldon Gorst, the 
British diplomatic agent, the local press 
was praising or criticising him for his action 
in the Sudan in commending British rule 
in Africa. On the day of the Colonel's 
arrival in Cairo, a paper published an open 
letter signed by Sheik Ali Youssef, a con- 
servative Nationalist, hailing Colonel 
Roosevelt as one of the greatest men of the 
twentieth century and saying Egypt had 
been awaiting his arrival because, ''all 
admire the noble principles and superior 
virtues whereof you have given evidence 
during your term in the presidency in the 
land of wonders." Colonel Roosevelt's 
addresses in the Sudan were generally 
approved, but the writer added: 

*'We fear the wealth and happiness you 
see in Egypt, which is occupied by a foreign 
power, will dazzle your eyes and lead you 



66 FROM THE JUNGLE 

to advise those who hear your speeches 
to endeavor to observe the status quo and 
eulogize the occupation in the same manner 
you eulogized 'Modern Egypt,' which was 
written by Lord Cromer. If you do this, 
you certainly will modify the pleasure of the 
Egyptians who are anxious to meet you." 

This moderate expression w^as but the 
beginning of a series of attacks by the 
Nationalist press upon the Colonel for 
interfering in Egyptian politics. The effect 
of the agitation, however, was to make 
Mr. Roosevelt better known to the people 
and more popular except among the fanatics 
of the Nationalist party. The editors 
of the papers expressed a wish to see Mr. 
Roosevelt, and he granted the interview 
only on condition that all sects should be 
represented. A dozen men were there, 
Mohammedans, copts, Christian and others. 
Their journals ranged in opinion from ap- 
proval of the Egyptian regime to advocacy 
of the expulsion of the English by force 
if necessary; from defense of religious 



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toleration to suggestions calculated to stir 
the Moslems against the Christians and 
the Christians against the Moslems. Colonel 
Roosevelt took advantage of the occasion 
to express his well-known views on religious 
toleration. 

'Tf there is one word of advice I would 
give," he remarked, ''it is that the Moslems 
treat the Christians with exact justice 
and the Christians should act in exactly 
the same way toward the Moslems." 

"Take, for instance," he continued, "the 
six American newspaper men with me. 
They represent all shades of political and 
religious opinion, but all stand alike for 
certain things. They stand for justice 
as between man and man. The Catholic 
demands justice for the Protestant and the 
Jew; the Protestant for the Catholic and 
the Jew; and the Jew for the Protestant 
and the Catholic. The man of one political 
or religious belief comes to the relief of 
the man of another political or religious 
view. They demand justice for all." 



68 FROM THE JUNGLE 

The speech Colonel Roosevelt delivered 
at the University of Egypt was as daring 
an address as could have been made. No 
Englishman had cared to speak publicly 
upon conditions which, unless checked, will 
surely lead to revolution. The Colonel 
declared the assassination of Boutros Pasha 
to be an even greater calamity to Eg^^pt 
than to the victim himself. He said the 
assassin stood on a pinnacle of evil and 
infamy, and that those apologizing for or 
condoning his act occupied the same bad 
eminence. This was his answer to the 
warning that he would be murdered if he 
dared to condemn the man who shot the 
Egyptian premier. He told his audience 
that no people permanently had amounted 
to anything whose only public leaders 
had been clerks, politicians and lawyers. 
He declared that morality, decency, clean 
living, courage, manliness and self-respect 
were more important than mental subtilty. 
He asserted that the training of a nation 
to fit it successfullv to fulfill the duties 



FROM THE JUNGLE 09 

of self-government was not a matter of a 
decade or two, but of generations. He 
adjured them not to forget the old Arab 
proverb, ''God is with the patient if they 
know how to wait." 

The speech was delivered before an au- 
dience including every man prominent in 
the poKtical and intellectual life of Cairo. 
His hearers loudly applauded his remarks, 
but privately they indicated their astonish- 
ment that Colonel Roosevelt should have 
had the courage to speak as he did. The 
Egyptian press was divided in its comment, 
the Nationalist organs resenting and the 
Christian papers approving. While Mr. 
Roosevelt was absent from his hotel, a 
couple of hundred students gathered be- 
fore that establishment, shrieking, "Vive 
la constitution! A bas le despotisme! A 
bas les hypocrites!" The demonstration 
was a flat failure in view of the fact that 
there are twenty thousand students in 
Cairo and they have not hesitated to ex- 
press themselves publicly when aroused 



70 FROM THE JUNGLE 

by some acts of the government or expres- 
sions of a man with which they were not 
in sympathy. 

When Mr. Roosevelt left Egypt he car- 
ried with him the heartfelt thanks of those 
who stand for tranquility, for religious 
toleration and for orderly progress in this 
ancient land. 



IV 
ITALY 

The right thing to do is the right thing to do. — A Roosevelt 
Principle. 

A S ROME dominates Italy in western 
eyes, so in the Roosevelt tour it over- 
shadowed the rest of the sunny Kingdom 
of Southern Europe. It represented the 
fourth stage, sociologically considered, of 
a journey which had begun in the wilder- 
ness, with its savagery, had trailed through 
the Sudan with its barbarism, traversed 
Egypt with its feeble civilization, and now^ 
touched Italy with its modern government 
and its culture. It pictured the slow 
mounting of the ladder by man. From 
densest ignorance we had come to a land 
where intellect controls. From brutality 
we had passed to refinement, from cruelty 
to art, from idolatry and superstition to God. 
I know little personally of how the 
71 



72 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Roosevelt party passed its time at Naples. 
I was concerned about what since has be- 
come known as "the Vatican incident," 
and hastened by the first train from the 
Italian seaport to Rome, voluntarily, to 
make an effort to induce the Holy See 
to recede from its announced position and 
permit Colonel Roosevelt to have an 
audience with the Pope without restric- 
tion. So far as the former President was 
concerned, the question of his reception 
by the Holy Father had been settled be- 
fore he left Cairo. In the Egyptian capital 
the former President had exchanged cables 
with John G. A. Leishman, the American 
Ambassador in Rome, the subsequent pub- 
lication of which proved that he had 
adhered unfalteringly to the principle which 
lies at the base of iVmericanism — that of 
liberty. 

It would have been an easy matter for 
Colonel Roosevelt to have played politics, 
to have passed through Rome Avith his 
record clear publicly, but with his con- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 73 

science tarnished. He could have over- 
looked the threat, subsequently trans- 
formed into an ultimatum, which the 
Vatican made, seen His Holiness, and 
forever after have regretted his action, 
because it would have been an act dictated 
by policy, which no intelligent American 
citizen, whether Catholic or Protestant or 
Jew, would have approved. But in a 
matter of this character, the former Presi- 
dent gave no heed to politics or to the effect 
of what he proposed to do upon his per- 
sonal fortunes. He considered the ques- 
tion from its moral standpoint. And his 
consideration led him to the only con- 
clusion possible, — that self-respect and 
regard for the spirit of American freedom 
required him to decline to observe the con- 
ditions which His Eminence, Merry del 
Val, the Cardinal Secretary of State, had 
imposed in connection with the audience 
the Colonel had requested from the jungle. 
I can do no better in telling of the Vati- 
can incident than to quote the dispatch 



74 FROM THE JUNGLE 

which I sent from Rome, describing the 
attitude of Colonel Roosevelt in this 
matter: 

ROME, April 3. — Theodore Roosevelt will not 
call on the Pope. Seeking to establish a precedent 
which would serve as a code of conduct for all future 
American presentations, the Vatican sought to 
impose on the distinguished ex-President certain 
limitations of behavior while he was in Rome, to 
which as an American, he would not submit. 

Unquestionably the incident is regrettable as it 
is. It would assume serious proportions if it were 
not for the delicate and tactful way in which it has 
been handled by Roosevelt. 

While a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, 
Mr, Roosevelt has never been a sectarian. Through- 
out his career he has been an American in his tolera- 
tion. He treated Catholic, Protestant and Jew on 
the same basis — his worth as a man — not with any 
reference to his religious faith. 

Mr. Roosevelt insisted, while President, on abso- 
lute equality in the treatment of Catholic, Protestant 
or Jew in the United States, and applied the same 
policy to Christian and Mohammedan in the Philip- 
pines. 

He condemned bigotry, whether from Protestant 
or Catholic, as was shown by his denunciation of 



FROM THE JUNGLE 75 

the A. P. A. before the Methodist Chautauqua 
conference. 

He sought and succeeded in arranging multi- 
tudinous questions for the Catholic Church arising 
from the American acquisition of the Philippines, 
Porto Rico and Panama, and the liberation of Cuba 
from the yoke of Spain. 

He appointed two Catholics, Charles J. Bonaparte 
and R. J. Wynne, as members of his Cabinet. 
Bonaparte was Secretary of the Navy, and Wynne 
was Postmaster-General. Mr. Roosevelt also placed 
many other Catholics in high government offices, 
an honor gratefully appreciated by the American 
Catholics and fully recognized by the Vatican. 

Mr. Roosevelt did these things, not because the 
men or interests concerned were Catholics but, in 
the case of the former, because their qualities called 
for recognition — recognition which they would have 
received had they been Protestants or Jews — and, 
in the case of the interests, because the questions 
arising in connection with them required settle- 
ment for the good of the country. 

In his position as President of the American 
Republic, where liberty of worship is a cardinal 
principle, he was bound to do no more and no less, 
and never sought to take the slightest credit for 
his acts in this connection. 

The natural result of the course Mr. Roosevelt 



76 FROM THE JUNGLE 

took was to give him popularity among the Catholics 
beyond that enjoyed by any other politician. 

I happen to know of his warm friendship with 
many of the Catholic clergy and their high regard 
for him. Indeed, during his African hunt, many of 
the clergy sent him Christmas cards, and souvenirs 
and birthday medals blessed by the Pope. 

On his way through Africa, Mr. Roosevelt visited 
Catholic as well as Protestant missions, preaching 
to each the doctrine of religious toleration and urging 
all missionaries and students, Christians and 
Mohammedans, to work on the same broad platform 
of comnton Christianity. 

Immediately after landing at Nairobi Mr. Roose- 
velt called at the French Catholic mission, visited 
and lunched with the Catholic missionary, Kampall, 
and also took tea with the French "White Fathers." 

At the same point he dined with the Catholic 
Bishop of Khartoum and received many Catholics, 
priests and laymen, while touring in Egypt. 

I recite these facts in order to show Roosevelt's 
attitude, wherein justice and equal consideration 
of all faiths is the guiding principle. It was entirely 
natural to Mr. Roosevelt, because of his own inde- 
pendence of religious views, because of the cordial 
relations he had with so many Catholics, and because 
of the respect he entertains for the good, holy 
pontiff who presides over the Catholic Church, 



FROM THE JUNGLE 77 

that he should seek an opportunity to meet 
him. 

At Gondokoro, about five hundred miles south of 
Khartoum, Mr. Roosevelt accordingly wrote to 
Ambassador Leishman at Rome to arrange an 
audience with the King of Italy, saying he would be 
happy also to be presented to the Pope. 

Mr. Roosevelt with full appreciation of the 
dignity of his holiness and proper regard to the 
etiquette which obtains in such matters, notified 
the ambassador that, if possible, he would like to 
be presented to the King and Pope on the same 
day, but if this was in the shghtest degree not in 
keeping with the established principles, then he 
requested that the audience with the King be fixed 
for April 4, and the Pope on April 5. 

At the same time Mr. Roosevelt announced he 
would make no other engagements of any kind 
whatsoever until his arrival in Rome, where he 
could ascertain all the facts and conditions from 
the American ambassador. 

The American people must realize that in Europe 
an official standing is accorded to many men who 
have held high office, and that they must act in 
consonance with the treatment extended to them. 

Shortly before his arrival in Khartoum Mr. Roose- 
velt learned of the action of the Vatican in canceling 
the audience with Charles W. Fairbanks on account 



78 FROM THE JUNGLE 

of his acceptance of an invitation to address the 
Methodists of Rome. 

This incident, however, in nowise modified or 
affected the course Mr. Roosevelt had mapped out 
long before. He had not entered into and didn't 
propose to enter into any communication, direct 
or indirect, or make any engagement with Metho- 
dists, Catholics, or any other denomination in 
Rome until the day after that originally chosen for 
the reception at the Vatican. 

It is true that the Vatican had no information 
concerning this except Mr. Roosevelt's messages, 
Ambassador Leishman declining to make engage- 
ments of any kind until Mr. Roosevelt's arrival 
in Rome. 

The Vatican determined to prevent a repetition 
of the Fairbanks' incident and, at the same time, 
to fix a precedent which, once and for all, would 
establish the conditions of presentation of all 
American statesmen to the Pope and deliver a body 
blow to the Methodist propaganda in Rome. 

On March 25, Mr. Roosevelt received in Cairo 
the following cablegram from Mr. Leishman: 

"ROME, March 23.— The rector of the American 
Catholic college, Bishop Kennedy, in reply to an 
inquiry which I caused to be made, requests that 
the following communication be transmitted to 
you. It begins: 'The holy father will be delighted 



FROM THE JUNGLE 79 

to grant an audience to Mr. Roosevelt on April 5 
and hopes that nothing will arise to prevent it, such 
as the regretted incident which made the reception 
of Mr. Fairbanks impossible.' " 

Here was a distinct intimation that Mr. Roose- 
velt must restrict his liberty of action while in 
Rome. Ambassador Leishman's interpretation, as 
expressed by him on the same cable, was as follows : 

"I merely transmit the communication without 
having committed you in any way to accept the 
conditions imposed, as the form appears objec- 
tionable, clearly indicating that the audience 
would be cancelled in case you should take any 
action while here that might be construed as counte- 
nancing the Methodist mission work, as in the case 
of Mr. Fairbanks. 

"Although fully aware of your intentions to con- 
fine your visits to the King and the Pope, the covert 
threat of the Vatican in the communication to you 
is none the less objectionable, and one side or the 
other is sure to make capital out of the action you 
might take. The press already is preparing for the 
struggle." 

It was clearly impossible for Mr. Roosevelt to 
agree to the audience proposed under such condi- 
tions. While a private citizen now, he once was 
President of the United States, and since, as already 
stated, the dignity of the former office, especially 



80 FROM THE JUNGLE 

in European eyes, still clings to him, to say nothing 
of his own personal dignity, it followed as a matter 
of course that Mr. Roosevelt decided to send the 
following reply to Mr. Leishman : 

"Please present the following to Bishop Kennedy: 
It would be a real pleasure to me to be presented 
to the holy father, for whom I entertain a high 
respect, both personally and as the head of a great 
church. I fully recognize his right to receive or 
not receive whomsoever he chooses, for any reason 
that seems good to him, and if he does not receive 
me I shall not for a moment question the propriety of 
his action. On the other hand, I, in my turn, must 
decline to make any stipulation or submit to any 
conditions which would in any way limit my free- 
dom of conduct. I trust that on April 5 he will find 
it convenient to receive me. 

Theodore Roosevelt." 

Another cable two days later admitted Mr. Roose- 
velt's entire right to freedom of conduct, em- 
phasizing, however, the limitations whereto he must 
agree. This message follows : 

"His holiness would be much pleased to grant an 
audience to Mr. Roosevelt, for whom he entertains 
high esteem, both personally and as the former 
President of the United States. His holiness 
recognizes Mr. Roosevelt's entire right to full 



FROM THE JUNGLE 81 

freedom of conduct. On the other hand, in view 
of the circumstances for which neither his hoHness 
nor Mr. Roosevelt is responsible, an audience could 
not take place except on the understanding ex- 
pressed in the former message." 

No other construction could be placed on this 
message than that it was an ultimatum. Thereupon 
from Cairo Mr. Roosevelt wired to Ambassador 
Leishman, saying: 

"The proposed presentation is, of course, now 
impossible." 

While this correspondence was in progress Mr. 
Roosevelt was cabling to Ambassador Leishman, 
declining to make any engagements with any out- 
side persons or bodies. 

Mr. Roosevelt deeply regrets that the incident 
should have occurred, because of the possible 
acrimonious controversy which may arise. 

I can state positively that he absolutely has no 
feehng in the matter, showing the same breadth 
of character he displayed while in the White House. 
His attitude, perhaps, is best shown by his invita- 
tion to the American Franciscan Sisters to tea in 
his apartments in Shepheard hotel in Cairo, and by 
the contribution he made to their new building. 

Mr. Roosevelt is entirely convinced that his 
fellow- Americans, Catholic and Protestant, will 
accept as a matter of course that he acted in the 
only way possible. 



82 FROM THE JUNGLE 

The Vatican published a statement tonight 
asserting that no threat was intended in the messages 
to Mr. Roosevelt. It is said the expression to which 
Mr. Roosevelt took exception was merely a friendly 
suggestion of the advisability of avoiding com- 
mitting an act offensive to the Pope, which to 
countenance the Methodists would do. 

Mr. Roosevelt takes the position that the Vatican 
was unjustified in assuming that he intended to 
do an offensive thing, which was farthest from his 
mind. 

The Vatican holds that Mr. Roosevelt had no 
right, in view of the request for an audience, to 
take any step while in Rome to which the holy 
father could object, as he certainly would do by 
any recognition at any time while in Rome of the 
Methodist propaganda. 

The Methodists are charged with pernicious 
activity, including "diabolical" attacks on the Pope. 

Under the circumstances the Vatican feels that 
a repetition of the Fairbanks incident is preferable 
to a backdown in the position adopted, especially 
in view of the greater honor the Methodists would 
enjoy in the visit of so popular a man as Mr. 
Roosevelt. 

The press attributed to the Vatican 
the following statement in reference to 
the incident: 



FROM THE JUNGLE 83 

This is the present situation: The Methodists 
in Rome strive by every means to conduct a cam- 
paign of venomous hostihty against the holy father 
by lies and slanders. Here at his door, in this, his 
own episcopal city, they harbor alien priests. 
Moreover, they openly sympathize with and aid 
his enemies. They also advocate and strive to put 
into effect the principle enunciated by Bovio at 
the foot of the statue of Giordano Bruno, the apos- 
tate priest, when he said, "We have stripped the 
Pope of his temporal power and we never will rest 
till we strip him of his spiritual power as well." 

When Mr. Roosevelt expressed the wish to see 
the Pope, it was feared he did not know the situa- 
tion was as I have described it. As a consequence 
he was advised in a friendly way and the hope was 
expressed that the audience would not be prevented 
by any incident similar to that which made impos- 
sible the meeting between his holiness and Mr. 
Fairbanks. No condition was imposed, but the 
same procedure was adopted when the audiences 
with the Pope are arranged. 

His eminence quoted as examples the audiences 
granted to the Emperor of Germany, King Edward 
of England, and other sovereigns. The cardinal 
then proceeded: 

"When audiences are arranged the Vatican au- 
thorities naturally suggest beforehand, in a friendly 



84 FROM THE JUNGLE 

way, the things that are to be done. All this ex- 
change of messages preliminary to the audience 
naturally is considered by the Vatican as confi- 
dential, not for the Vatican's sake, but for that of 
Mr. Roosevelt himself, in order that he might be 
left free and unembarrassed on his arrival in Rome. 
Actually no application for an audience was made, 
but Mr. Roosevelt's wish to see the Pope was con- 
veyed to the Vatican. This and other communi- 
cations, it was thought in the Vatican were not 
intended for publication. 

"I saw Mr. John Callan O'Laughlin, who pre- 
sented a letter from Mgr. Falconio at Washington, 
who cabled on the same day his desire that I should 
see Mr. O'Laughlin merely in the capacity of one 
of Mr. Roosevelt's traveling companions. Mr. 
O'Laughlin told me he did not represent Mr. Roose- 
velt, and then I asked what he was here for. 

"Mr. O'Laughlin answered: 'To see if we cannot 
arrange the matter.' He assured me that if the 
telegrams which had passed were withdrawn Mr. 
Roosevelt would see the Pope, and all the difficulties 
would be at an end. This, it seemed to me, showed 
that Mr. O'Laughlin was really in a position to 
arrange matters. Accordingly I replied: 'That is 
impossible.' 

"Mr. O'Laughhn's contention was that Mr. 
Roosevelt was at liberty to go where he liked and 
do what he pleased after the audience. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 85 

"My reply was: 'After or before makes no dif- 
ference. It is not a question of religion. Mr. Roose- 
velt can go to his own or to any Protestant Church 
in the city of Rome, and while there deliver an 
address if he chooses to do so. Then, if he pleases, 
he may drive direct from that church and be re- 
ceived by the holy father.' I added, however, that 
it would be tactful if Mr. Roosevelt would first 
dfive to his hotel and there wait a few minutes 
before starting out for the audience. 

" 'But,' I went on, 'he cannot go to the Metho- 
dists in this place. I do not know about the Metho- 
dists in other places, and to them I do not refer, 
but those in this place are particularly offensive 
to his holiness because they conduct a campaign 
of villainous calumny against the holy see. There- 
fore, to go before or after the audience with the 
Pope, and with full knowledge that it would be 
offensive, would be equally objectionable to the 
holy father.' 

"Continuing, I said to Mr. O'Laughlin: 'All I 
ask is this, can you assure me that Mr. Roosevelt 
will de facto not go to the Methodists, thus leaving 
aside the question of what he may consider to be 
his rights in the matter?' 

"Mr. O'Laughlin replied: 'I cannot give any 
such assurance. On the contrary, my opinion is 
that Mr. Roosevelt is just the kind of a man to go, 
although he has made no engagement.' 



86 FROM THE JUNGLE 

"I replied: 'Mr. Roosevelt is entirely free to go 
where he pleases, but the holy father is certainly 
free to refuse to receive any one who reserves the 
right wittingly to offend him.' " 

His eminence then gave examples to illustrate 
the Vatican point of view in the matter. Suppose, 
he suggested, that Mr. Roosevelt were to go to 
Berlin. He certainly would not go to Polish clubs 
if it were pointed to him in a diplomatic way that 
such action would be offensive to the Kaiser. This 
before or after being received by his majesty. 

Another example he gave Mr. O'Laughlin, to 
quote his own words, was as folows: 

"You are free to take off your coat when you 
visit me and you may sit in your shirt sleeves now 
if you desire, but if you were to do so I would cer- 
tainly not receive you again." 

Concluding my talk with Mr. O'Laughlin, the 
cardinal said, "I said in substance: If I or any prelate 
from the Vatican went to America we should con- 
sider ourselves obliged to conform to the laws and 
customs of that country. If I wished an audience 
at the White House I should be obliged to inquire 
about the etiquette to be observed. I naturally 
would be anxious, if only as a matter of delicacy, 
to abstain from any act that might be interpreted 
as offensive." 

As the V^atican quoted me in the state- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 87 

ment it issued, I felt justified in publishing 
the following relating to my audience with 
Cardinal Merry del Val. 

In a personal capacity I called upon Cardinal 
Merry del Val on Saturday evening, and immediately 
was received in his private office. I was met by 
the Cardinal in the robes of his eminent office. 

I read the memorandum which I had prepared, 
stating that I did not come by Mr. Roosevelt's 
authority, although I had apprised him of my in- 
tention. 

"You may go or not, as you please," Mr. Roose- 
velt said to me, "but do not forget that, so far as 
I am concerned, the situation is precisely as I put 
it in my cablegrams, and that I cannot add or 
subtract a word from what I said therein. The 
matter was closed to me by the reiteration by Mgr. 
Kennedy of the original conditions." 

I described to the Cardinal the prospective effect 
of the incident on iVmerican sentiment, and recited 
the just attitude which Mr. Roosevelt had observed 
toward Catholics. To this attitude the Cardinal 
agreed. I added: 

"I want your eminence to know that in my judg- 
ment Mr. Roosevelt is too tactful and too much 
of a statesman ever to make a faux pas. I know 
he declined to make any engagements, with the 
exception of that with the King of Italy and the 



88 FROM THE JUNGLE 

proposed reception with the Pope, until after his 
arrival in Rome. 

"Mr. Roosevelt has no more cause to be offensive 
to his holiness than any one else. 

"Recognizing the dignity of the Pope as he does, 
I know him well enough to be sure that he would 
have refrained, prior to the presentation, to do any 
act which might be objectionable to the Vatican, 
but the day after the presentation should be his 
own to do with as he saw fit, and, in my judgment, no 
one has any right whatever to say what he should 
or should not do after the presentation to the Pope." 

I am not at liberty to give the views expressed 
by the Cardinal, but his tone was most friendly to 
Mr. Roosevelt, and he evidently desired to arrange 
the audience without abandoning the position taken 
by the Vatican in the Fairbanks case. 

Naturally, I could not privately pledge that Mr. 
Roosevelt would not call upon the. Methodists, 
though, as the Vatican statement says, had such 
word been passed, Mr. Roosevelt could have done 
what he pleased while in Italy. 

The holy father is greatly incensed by the cam- 
paign which the Methodists are conducting in Rome. 
The Vatican officials charge that the Methodist 
ministers not only are proselyting among the Catho- 
lics in what is described as an outrageous fashion, 
but are distributing pamphlets wherein it is stated 



FROM THE JUNGLE 89 

they make vicious and wholly unwarranted attacks 
on the Pope and against other Protestants in Rome. 
The Vatican made no complaint, but determined 
in the case of the Methodists to have nothing to 
do with them or with any one having relations with 
them. 

What Mr. Roosevelt's friends object to is what 
they regard as the Vatican's assumption that he 
intended to be offensive. As I have stated, this is 
not the Vatican's view, Mgr. Kennedy's messages 
being phrased so as to apprise him in a friendly way 
of the Fairbanks incident. 

Rome is inclined, in view of Mr. Roosevelt's 
circumspect conduct, to regard the question as a 
diplomatic matter rather than a religious one. The 
Colonel's friends hold that the dignity of his former 
position and his personal dignity would not permit 
him to take any other course than to decline the 
audience, and they believe the Vatican committed 
a blunder, the seriousness of which the future must 
demonstrate. 

An effect on Mr. Roosevelt's political fortunes 
is believed by Catholics here to be involved in the 
incident, but, so far as Mr. Roosevelt himself is 
concerned, he is not a candidate for anything, and 
this consideration does not enter into the matter 
in his opinion. He is being guided only by the im- 
portant principle at stake. 



90 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Mr. Roosevelt was most anxious to avoid 
religious dispute. To this end he sent 
the following cable letter to Lyman Abbott, 
the Editor of the Outlook: 

Dear Mr. Abbott: Through the Outlook, I wish 
to make a statement to my fellow-Americans regard- 
ing what has occurred in connection with the Vatican. 
I am sure that the great majority of my fellow- 
citizens, Catholics quite as much as Protestants, 
will feel that I acted in the only way possible for 
an American to act, and because of this very fact 
I most earnestly hope that the incident will be 
treated in a matter-of-course way, as merely per- 
sonal, and, above all, as not warranting the slightest 
exhibition of rancor or bitterness. 

Among my best and closest friends are many 
Catholics. The respect and regard of those of my 
fellow-Americans who are Catholics are as dear 
to me as the respect and regard of those who are 
Protestants. 

On my journey through Africa I visited many 
Catholic as well as many Protestant missions. As 
I look forward to telling the people at home all that 
has been done by Protestants and Catholics alike, 
as I saw it, in the field of missionary endeavor, it 
would cause me a real pang to have anything said 
or done that would hurt or give pain to my friends. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 91 

whatever their rehgious behef. But any merely 
personal considerations are of no consequence in 
this matter. The important consideration is the 
avoidance of harsh and bitter comment, such as 
may excite mistrust and anger between and among 
good men. 

The more an American sees of other countries, 
the more profound must be his feelings of gratitude 
that in his own land there is not merely complete 
toleration, but the heartiest good will and sympathy 
between sincere and honest men of different faiths — 
good will and sympathy so complete that in the 
innumerable daily relations of our daily American 
life Catholics and Protestants meet together and 
work together without the thought of difference 
of creed being ever present in their minds. 

This is a condition so vital to our national well- 
being that nothing should be permitted to jeopar- 
dize it. Bitter comment and criticism, acrimonious 
attack and defense, are not only profitless, but harm- 
ful, and to seize upon such an incident as this as 
an occasion for controversy would be wholly inde- 
fensible, and should be frowned upon by Catholics 
and Protestants alike, and all good Americans. 

Theodore Roosevelt. 

In spite of Mr. Roosevelt's appeal that 
the refusal of the Pope to receive him, save 
under stipulated conditions, be not made 



92 FROM THE JUNGLE 

a subject of religious controversy, the 
Rev. B. M. Tipple, pastor of the American 
Methodist Church in Rome, could not 
refrain from issuing a statement denounc- 
ing the Vatican, which in the view of 
the former President was simply scur- 
rilous. Dr. Tipple said: 

While the work of Methodism in Rome started 
the rumpus, it is no longer Methodism or any other 
ism, but the great principle of toleration. Mr. 
Roosevelt has struck a blow for twentieth century 
Christianity. 

The representatives of two great republics have 
been the ones to put the Vatican where it belongs. 
President Loubet refused to accede to Vatican 
conditions, and now Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Roose- 
velt come to maintain the dignity and indepen- 
dence of American manhood in the face of Vatican 
tyranny. 

The Vatican is incompatible with Republican 
principles. This is a bitter dose for patriotic Catho- 
lics in America to swallow. I wonder how many 
doses of this sort they will take before they revolt. 
Is Catholicism in America to be American or 
Romish.^ If Romish, then every patriotic American 
should rise to crush it, for Roman Catholicism is 
the uncompromising foe of freedom. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 93 

After the Fairbanks episode, the Methodists 
never dreamed that the Vatican would commit a 
similar blunder with Mr. Roosevelt. That it has 
done so is added proof that the policy prevailing 
there is the same yesterday, today and forever. 
The Vatican is the Vatican. The world advances, 
but the Vatican never. 

Americans can now- better understand how it 
is that the Roman church has lost France, the men 
of Italy, and is losing Spain and Austria. 

This statement was so contrary to 
Colonel Roosevelt's appeal, so far from his 
view that justice and fair dealing should 
exist between the different creeds, that 
he summarily cancelled a reception which 
he had intended to give to all Americans 
in Rome and which the Methodist Colony 
had arranged to attend. The Colonel 
always has possessed a pecuHar affection 
for the beliefs of the Methodists, but he 
is incapable of hesitating for one moment 
in disapproving their conduct when they 
go wrong, just as he is incapable of hesi- 
tating one moment to refuse to accept any 
dictation whatever by the Vatican in a 



94 FROM THE JUNGLE 

matter which he regards as concerning 
only his personal dignity and judgment. 
The effect of the Tipple statement was to 
cause the Colonel to issue the following: 

I had made no arrangements to speak at any 
church or clerical organization in Rome. I have 
received a number of gentlemen of all religious 
faiths who have called at my rooms or at the 
American embassy. 

Under the circumstances I have requested the 
American ambassador not to hold the reception 
which he had intended to hold Wednesday afternoon. 

As regards all efforts, by whomsoever made, to 
bring about and inflame religious animosities 
because of what has occurred in connection with 
the Vatican and myself, I can do no more than to 
refer to the emphatic statements contained in my 
open letter to Dr. Lyman Abbott, already published. 

All that I there said I desire to reiterate with 
my whole power. 

While Rome was involved in the storm 
of discussion as to the propriety of Colonel 
Roosevelt's course (and Catholic digni- 
taries and Catholic laymen, as well as 
Methodists and other Protestants, gener- 
ally approved it), the former President 



FROM THE JUNGLE 95 

was receiving honors from the Royal House 
of Italy, from the government and from 
the municipality. Not content with the 
formal exchange of calls or with giving a 
state dinner at the Palace, King Victor 
Immanuel sought an interview which lasted 
more than two hours and included a ride 
through the royal preserves and the wit- 
nessing of an exhibition drill by the royal 
Cuirassiers. Colonel Roosevelt deposited 
wreaths upon the tombs of the father and 
grandfather of the King in the sombre 
Pantheon. As he was engaged in this 
tactful ceremony, rain fell in torrents and 
thunder rolled and lightning flashed. 
* 'Whenever Caesar began an expedition 
which was crowned with success," observed 
significantly an Italian statesman with 
whom I was talking, ''Jove blackened the 
sky, sounded his war drums and sent bolts 
toward the earth." Colonel Roosevelt also 
saw the Coliseum, where gladiators fought 
and Christians were once thrown to the 
lions, and enjoyed thoroughly the artistic 



96 FROM THE JUNGLE 

and spiritual atmosphere of St. Peter's. 
Here was a contrast which could not but 
present itself to his agile mind; for it 
showed on the one hand the beast in man, 
and on the other the triumph the spirit 
had achieved. 

The interest of the populace in Mr. 
Roosevelt was manifested on every occa- 
sion. Every Roman wanted to see the 
great American, parti}" because the fame 
of his work for the people had reached 
them, and partly because he represented 
that militant democracy in which so many 
of their relatives and friends had risen to 
prosperity and even w^ealth. They greeted 
him enthusiastically upon his arrival at 
the railroad station. They surrounded his 
hotel, cheering as he entered or emerged; 
they lined the sidewalks, cordially lifting 
their hats as he passed. They displayed 
an attitude unknown in this ancient city, 
where the coming and going of mighty 
rulers is not an event but an incident. 

The Roosevelt party spent four days in 



FROM THE JUNGLE 97 

Rome, and then separated, Mrs. Roosevelt 
and her husband leaving for Spezzia to 
retrace their honeymoon journey of twenty- 
four years before. They had asked to be 
reheved from the prying eyes of the jour- 
nalists, a request observed by the foreign 
correspondents, but disregarded by the 
native newspaper men. They had ex- 
pected to pass along the Italian Riviera 
unobserved. They might as well have 
asked for the moon. At every village they 
were received with elaborate ceremony by 
the municipal authorities. At one point 
they were intercepted by a delegation and 
led to a hotel other than that which they 
had selected, and then they found that the 
delegation consisted of the hotel proprietor 
and his assistants who wanted to deprive 
the rival inn of the honor of entertaining 
the former President and his wife. I met 
the latter, on the road near Genoa, riding 
in an ordinary carriage, somewhat dis- 
appointed at their inability to be free from 
ceremonial recognition. A few hours only 



98 FROM THE JUNGLE 

were passed at Genoa, where they were 
joined by Miss Ethel, Kermit, Mr. Abbott 
and the American journaHsts, and then 
the train was taken for Porto Maurizio. 

There are six thousand inhabitants of 
this Httle seaport. There were exactly six 
thousand people around the railroad station 
to greet Colonel Roosevelt when he arrived. 
Miss Carow, who has a villa here, had met 
the family in Rome and rejoined the 
Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt at Genoa. She 
reminded me of a little humming bird as 
she flitted from side to side of the Roose- 
velt car, pointing out the beauties of the 
landscape and speaking of her "dear people" 
who were awaiting her brother-in-law's 
arrival. Her face was a study in enthu- 
siasm when she saw^ the enormous crowd 
and heard the vociferous greeting. Mayor 
Carreti formally received Colonel Roose- 
velt ''as the first citizen of the American 
Republic, but above all as a great human- 
itarian." 

The party was escorted to carriages, 



FROM THE JUNGLE 99 

and driven under an arch of welcome 
through the densely crowded streets to 
the charming home of Miss Carow. Lo- 
cated upon the side of a hill, embowered 
in roses, it overlooks the blue Adriatic and 
the picturesque town at its feet. Above 
it is a monastery, the home of the good 
Father Damio, whose sanctity is known 
throughout Italy. In a villa behind that 
of Miss Carow, Colonel and Mrs. Roose- 
velt established themselves. It was here 
that Gifford Pinchot had his first inter- 
view with Mr. Roosevelt since the latter's 
departure from America, and explained to 
him the reasons for his course in precipi- 
tating the conservation scandal. It was 
here that Colonel Roosevelt received many 
distinguished Itahans, that he. answered 
the voluminous mail which had been for- 
warded from Rome. And from this quiet 
nest, he descended to the town to receive 
the freedom of the city, to open a new 
street named in his honor, and to enjoy 
a night celebration in which the fun-loving 



100 FROM THE JUNGLE 

people picturesquely renewed their en- 
thusiastic demonstration in honor of their 
distinguished guest. 

Porto Maurizio will be always of happy 
memory. The Roosevelts left it behind 
deluged with the flowers thrown at them 
by the multitude, and with their ears 
deafened with an earnest appeal soon to 
return. 

Colonel Roosevelt and his son were now 
bound for glorious Venice, while Mrs. 
Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt remained be- 
hind to spend a few days more as the guest of 
Miss Carow. The city of canals w^as reached 
at two in the morning. The party entered 
a steam launch, much to the regret of the 
Colonel, who wished for a gondola, and was 
conveyed to the hotel, where a few hours 
were spent in sleep. In the earl}^ morning, 
after breakfast, the Colonel was taken in 
the gondola of the American Consul under 
the Bridge of Sighs to Verrochio's cele- 
brated statue of Colleoni, which the former 
President regards as the most imposing 



FROM THE JUNGLE 101 

piece of sculp tuary in the world. He 
visited St. Mark's with its varied archi- 
tecture showing the different periods of 
Venetian development. He enjoyed the 
wonderful mosaics in the cathedral, and 
then proceeded to the Palace of the Doges, 
where he found pleasure in the magnificent 
paintings of the old masters. He hastened 
to the Academy of Bella x\rti, where he 
examined with the appreciation of a con- 
noisseur the five masterpieces of Titian, 
Veronese, Bellini, Carpaccio and Tintoretto. 

As he left the city for Austria the Colonel 
remarked : 

"If there were only one country in the 
world outside our own I would send my 
sons to Egypt; if there were one city, I 
would send them to Venice." 



V 
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY 

The old order changeth, yielding place to new. — Tennyson. 

npHE most aristocratic country in the 
world today is Austria. As proud 
and independent as any race on earth is 
that inhabiting Hungary. The one is 
ruled by a nobility which holds its head 
the higher because it is in decay. The 
other is permeated with democracy, with 
the love of freedom, which makes it yearn 
for self-government. The two form a dual 
empire held together by strands which 
the forces pulling in opposite directions 
are rupturing one by one. 

It was in this land of contrasts that 
Colonel Roosevelt received a truly re- 
markable ovation. From the time he 
passed into Austrian territor}^ until he 
left for Paris he was the recipient of such 
marked attentions from the Emperor, the 
102 



FROM THE JUNGLE 103 

court, and the people as to amaze even the 
Austrians and Hungarians themselves. 
No man was too high or too mean to do him 
honor. When he reached the frontier, 
an official was in waiting to extend to him 
a formal welcome in the name of "His 
gracious Catholic Majesty." When he 
arrived in Vienna, he found at the station 
Baron Hengelmuller von Hengervar, 
Austrian Ambassador to the United States, 
Richard C. Kerens, American Ambassador 
to Austria-Hungary, and officers of the 
army and navy, in full uniform, mingling 
with civilians in long coats and top hats. 
The Colonel and Kermit were whirled in 
an Imperial carriage to the hotel they had 
selected. A large crowd gave the former 
President a rousing cheer as he entered 
the building. 

There was hardly a moment during the 
two days the Roosevelts spent in Vienna 
that was not occupied.. There were formal 
calls upon Count von Aerenthal, Minister 
for Foreign Affairs, and upon the Emperor 



104 FROM THE JUNGLE 

at the Palace. The aged ruler, Franz 
Joseph, testified to his appreciation of 
American friendship and the strong person- 
ality of the nation's guest by giving a 
state dinner in the latter's honor. The 
deep impression Mr. Roosevelt made upon 
His Majesty is perhaps best indicated 
by the formal invitation extended by him 
to the American traveler to shoot in the 
royal preserves. This is an honor never 
before offered to a private person. The 
court could not understand Colonel Roose- 
velt's refusal, being inclined to regard 
it as in bad taste; for an invitation from the 
Emperor, in Austria more than in any 
other country, is a command which must 
be obeyed. Colonel Roosevelt's itinerary, 
however, had been arranged in such manner 
that he could not depart from it in the 
slightest degree without causing confusion. 
Under the circumstances, therefore, he was 
compelled reluctantly to inform the Em- 
peror that much as he would like to do so, he 
must deny himself the pleasure so courte- 
ouslv offered him. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 105 

Formal functions are interesting up to 
a certain point, and the Colonel enjoyed 
them. But other forms of entertainment 
were provided for him, which he hailed 
as a welcome change. He was thoroughly 
pleased with the drill of the Imperial 
Guard, the inspection of their quarters 
and stables, and the contact with the 
officers, in whose veins runs the bluest blood 
of Hungary. He came to them merely 
as a distinguished citizen; he left them 
a soldier carrying their professional respect. 
He asked intelligent questions about boots, 
clothing and supplies. He knew the good 
and bad points of their rifles and field 
guns and their horses. A squadron was 
ordered to engage in evolutions for his 
benefit. It could not compare with a 
similar force of x\merican cavalry. I shall 
never forget the disgust writ large on the 
face of the commander of the troop when a 
horse fell and its rider rolled in the dust. 
I hesitate to think of the punishment meted 
out to that soldier when the Colonel left 



106 FROM THE JUNGLE 

the drill grounds. In the eyes of the former 
commander of the Rough Riders, however, 
the mishap was a mere incident. He found 
the regiment well equipped and well drilled, 
and in a speech delivered before he left 
he referred to its existence of one hundred 
and fift^^-three years and commended it 
as one of the "t^^pical fighting regiments" 
of the world. Needless to say, this tactful 
utterance received the enthusiastic ap- 
probation of the officers who shouted 
"Ho!" "Ho!" "Ho!" with all the strength 
of their lungs. 

And the Colonel enjoyed, too, the hos- 
pitality of Ambassador and Mrs. Kerens, 
and the reception to iVmericans in Vienna 
which they gave. He visited the Inter- 
national Sporting Exhibition occurring in 
Vienna, in which the American government, 
as the result of the failure of Congress 
to make an appropriation, was unable 
to participate. He placed w^reaths upon 
the tombs of the Empress Elizabeth and 
Prince Rudolph, her son. He inspected 



FROM THE JUNGLE 107 

the famous eleventh-century castle of 
Count Wilczek, which stands a short dis- 
tance from Vienna. He talked intimate 
things with Henry White, a former am- 
bassador of the United States, who came 
to the Austrian capital to meet him. He 
exchanged hunting reminiscences with 
Count Hoyos, who had killed lions in 
Africa and bears in Alaska. He discussed 
social questions with Baron Richard von 
Bienorth, the Austrian premier, the limita- 
tion of armaments by international treaty 
with Count von Aerenthal; and when 
requested to do so by that diplomat, he 
advanced the suggestions he later expressed 
in the peace speech delivered at Christiania, 
Norway. 

It was curious to note the respect with 
which the opinions of this great democrat 
were received by the aristocratic office- 
holders of Austria. Neither I nor anyone 
else had been surprised at the warmth of 
the enthusiasm manifested by the people. 
For instance, on the evening he drove from 



108 FROM THE JUNGLE 

the hotel to dine at the Castle, the side- 
walks of the streets through which he passed 
were packed with men and women cheer- 
ing madly the American who has sought 
to put into effect the aspirations of those 
who work with their hands. Mr. Roosevelt 
represents the force which is destructive 
of monopolistic rule. He is the champion 
of equality and justice as between man and 
man, and because he is recognized as such 
by the aristocracy as well as by the people, 
I had expected the Hapsburg court to treat 
him with formal politeness, and to pay 
him only those honors which were his due 
as a former President of the United States. 
I was agreeably disappointed. In whatever 
circle Colonel Roosevelt moved, there was 
manifested the same keen desire to meet 
him, to discuss with him questions of vital 
moment to Austria and to seek his views 
as to the course to be taken in connection 
with the important problems pressing for 
solution. 

Colonel Roosevelt could easily have per- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 109 

mitted himself to have become another 
bone of contention between Austria and 
Hungary. Indeed, it required tact and 
diplomacy to avoid being forced into a 
position where he would have made him- 
self persona non grata to the Austrian 
government. The authorities in Vienna 
would have liked nothing better than to 
have him denounce or even to criticise 
what they regard as the disloyal acts of 
Hungary. The Colonel passed through 
this dehcate situation without the slightest 
embarrassment to himself, though he may 
have caused disappointment to certain 
Austrians. The Hungarians on their side 
were just as anxious to have him assail the 
Vienna government. And here again Mr. 
Roosevelt displayed real diplomacy and 
evaded an issue which might have been a 
source of personal mortification as well 
as of irritation on the part of Austrian 
government toward the American people. 

When Colonel Roosevelt and his son 
reached the Hungarian frontier they were 



no FROM THE JUNGLE 

met by Count Albert Apponyi, an Hun- 
garian leader, and an enthusiastic delega- 
tion of Huns. They were conveyed through 
a town, decorated with Hungarian and 
American flags, and packed with people 
who had crowded in from the neighboring 
countryside. Driving along the road to 
the chateau of Count Apponyi, they passed 
through three villages, inhabited by three 
different races, all of whom, however, 
gave the Colonel the same cordial greeting. 
He dined at the residence of Count Apponyi, 
where he met Baroness Poldy Francken- 
stin, a niece of his host, who has done so 
much in Austria and Hungary to make 
almshouses, not the dwelling place of 
paupers, where it is a disgrace to live, but 
homes in which the old and infirm really 
desire to spend their declining years. 

Colonel Roosevelt arrived at Buda Pesth, 
the beautiful city on the Danube, at nine 
o'clock in the evening. Rain was falling 
heavily upon the crowd of thousands 
swarming around the railroad station. The 



FROM THE JUNGLE 111 

weather in no wise dampened the feehng 
of the populace, however, and they histily 
shouted their greeting when the Colonel 
appeared. The time the former President 
spent in Buda Pesth was kaleidoscopic in 
its incidents. As he had done elsewhere, he 
first called upon the reigning authorities. 
He went to the palace and lunched with 
the Archduke Joseph. He exchanged calls 
with the Hungarian premier. He visited 
the historic parliament house where Count 
iVpponyi and a delegation representing 
the Interparliamentary Peace Union gave 
him a formal welcome. Count Apponyi 
is an effective orator. He is a tall, spare 
man, of dignified appearance, who has 
made a name for himself as one of the 
thoughtful statesmen of the Hungarian 
kingdom. As spokesman of the delega- 
tion he made a stirring speech in which 
he referred to Mr. Roosevelt as typifying 
public honesty and as the champion of 
moral regeneration, — "one of the leading 
efficient forces for the moral, improvement 



112 FROM THE JUNGLE 

of the world." In the response Mr. Roose- 
velt made, he refrained from any allusions 
to the relations of Hungary and Austria, 
but he aroused the pride of all Huns by 
describing Hungary's past in glowing lan- 
guage, and by referring to "the tremendous 
influence it has exercised upon the world 
in beating back, by the dauntless courage 
of its warriors, the hordes of barbarians 
which sought to overwhelm Europe." 
Colonel Roosevelt paid a call upon Francis 
Kossuth, son of the distinguished Hungarian 
patriot, whose visit to the United States 
almost three-quarters of a century ago 
elicited the sympathy of the American 
people for the Huns in their struggle for 
liberty. Kossuth is by no means the 
strong man his father was. While the head 
of a party, he has ceased to have much 
influence, and seems to prefer the quiet 
of his home to the turmoil of politics. When 
Mr. Roosevelt visited him he showed with 
pride a number of busts and portraits 
he has made of the Hungarian patriot. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 113 

His house is filled with mementos of his 
father's life. *T am ill," he told the Colonel, 
''but if you had not been kind enough to 
call on me, I would have been conveyed 
to your hotel on a litter. All my life I was 
brought up in an atmosphere of liberty 
as typified by America, and I have peculiar 
feelings of pleasure and sympathy toward 
your great country." 

Through their newspapers, the in- 
habitants of cities are informed of the deeds 
and details of the personality of leaders in 
American life. The interest taken by those 
in Buda Pesth in a man famed as Mr. 
Roosevelt is caused me consequently less 
astonishment than did that which was 
displayed by the people of the country 
districts. On the last day of our stay in 
Hungary, Mr. Roosevelt was taken to 
a state farm about forty miles from the 
city. From the railroad station, where 
we left the train, to the farm, the distance 
is a little more than twelve miles. It is 
quite conceivable that the government 



114 FROM THE JUNGLE 

might have declared a hohday and induced 
the people of the villages along the route 
to stand by the roadside and witness the 
passage of the national guest. But the 
government could not have inspired the 
spontaneous enthusiasm which the ap- 
pearance of Mr. Roosevelt elicited. Chil- 
dren stood in front of their schools hailing 
the American and waving our starry flag. 
Men and women threw flowers into his 
carriage. Along the route were stationed 
soldiers at intervals of one hundred yards, 
who smartly brought their guns to salute 
as he drove by. The state farm is a center 
from which agricultural education radiates. 
Here the peasants are taught the best 
methods of production, are shown how to 
raise animals and are loaned the service 
of stallions and bulls of first-class breed. 
Colonel Roosevelt inspected this institution 
with interest, finding in it much of impor- 
tance that he proposes to tell about in his 
addresses to American farmers. 

When Colonel Roosevelt returned to 



FROM THE JUNGLE 115 

Euda Pesth in the evening- — the last of 
his stay in Hungary — his carriage had to 
force its way through tens of thousands 
of people surrounding his hoteL The broad 
street running alongside the Danube was 
filled with a dense crowd which cheered, 
and cheered, and cheered, and only ceased 
when he appeared and cordially expressed 
his thanks for the demonstration. There 
were a few men among his hearers who 
understood English. These hastily trans- 
lated his remarks into Magyar, and with 
every expression there was a shout of ap- 
preciation which rolled over to the berg 
across the river and came back in a thun- 
dering echo. I have seen many demonstra- 
tions, but that one by the Danube has not 
been surpassed in my experience. 



VI 
FRANCE, BELGIUM AND HOLLAND 

And Paris gave him her choicest gift — Herself. — The Story 
of the Kings. 

^T^HE people of the United States at- 
tribute to Colonel Roosevelt the 
fault of impulsiveness. They are inclined 
to believe he frequently acts without pre- 
liminary consideration; in a word, that he 
is a gun with a hair trigger. Never have 
they made a greater mistake. It is true 
it does not take the former President long 
to make up his mind. He grasps the es- 
sentials of a question with a rapidity which 
often has amazed me. He searches for 
the right and having found it guides him- 
self accordingly. Repeatedly, in dealing 
with an important matter, I have seen him 
look at it from every possible angle, and 
in the preparation of his decision he has 
taken time and thought. 
116 



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Apparently, this has no connection with 
Colonel Roosevelt's European trip. As 
a matter of fact, the developments which 
occurred in connection with that journey 
demonstrate the truth of what I say. Take, 
for example, the lectures he delivered to the 
Sorbonne in Paris, before the Nobel Peace 
Prize Committee at Christiania, in the 
University at Berlin, and finally at Oxford. 
Everyone of those papers was dictated 
before he left the White House in Washing- 
ton. He took them with him on his hunt- 
ing trip in Africa; and when he delivered 
them, they represented the finished product 
of his brain. 

But these were not the only examples 
of Colonel Roosevelt's thoughtfulness. No 
point of ceremony or etiquette was too 
nice to fail to receive his observance. When 
he left the Sudan, he wrote cordial letters 
of thanks to the officials who had enter- 
tained him. As he was sailing from Egypt, 
he sent telegrams of appreciation to the 
Khedive, Sir Eldon Gorst, the British 



118 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Diplomatic Agent and others whose hos- 
pitahty he had enjoyed. From the iVustro- 
Itahan frontier, he wired an expression 
of his gratitude to the King of Italy, to 
the Prime Minister of the Kingdom and 
to the Municipality of Rome. He repeated 
this courtesy when he passed over the 
Austrian frontier, transmitting his acknowl- 
edgment of the honors paid him to the 
Emperor King of Austro-Hungar^s to the 
Archduke Joseph of Hungary, to the 
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, 
and the Prime Minister of Hungary. To 
the rulers and dignitaries of every other 
land which he visited he communicated, 
upon his departure from their jurisdiction, 
the fact of his keen appreciation of the con- 
sideration they had shown him. 

On a continent, where Americans are 
regarded as ignorant of conventions, and 
even of the ordinary decencies of life, this 
behavior on the part of the distinguished 
representative of the republic of the west 
could not but have a happy effect. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 119 

Colonel Roosevelt took Paris bA^ storm, 
and Paris demonstrated that it was glad 
to be so taken. The people of the French 
capital had been long anticipating the 
visit. They were prepared to offer their 
best to "the greatest voice in the New 
World," to ''the man who speaks by action 
as well as word, giving to the world counsels 
of justice and energy, justice as the end 
and energy as the means," to ''the man who 
believes that life's intense effort should 
ever be directed toward the public weal 
and honesty." It was in recognition of 
the large part Theodore Roosevelt had 
played in the world of affairs, in token of 
its appreciation of what he had done in 
the interest of universal peace, and because, 
while in the White House, he had taken 
every proper means to strengthen the 
friendship between the two great republics 
of the earth, that France crowned the 
American with the honor of election to 
the Academy of Moral and Political 
Sciences. He received the news of his 



120 FROM THE JUNGLE 

election in Africa while hunting for a 
white rhinoceros, which he said was the 
survivor of the long-haired rhinoceros that 
existed in France when France w^as in- 
habited by naked savages. 

Paris, like other capitals of Europe, has 
been surfeited with royal visitors. I my- 
self have seen three kings within its gates 
at the same time. There have been oc- 
casions when relief from an embarrassing 
situation, due to the intervention of a 
foreign government in behalf of French 
interests, have caused the people to give 
the crowned heads of these governments 
an enthusiastic welcome. There was no 
such reason to inspire them in connection 
with the coming of Colonel Roosevelt. 
Perhaps it was because he possessed 
qualities of action and daring, because he 
preached morality, and because of his 
exploits in war and upon the hunting field 
that the Parisians opened their hearts to 
him. The gendarmes had difficulty in 
keeping them within bounds when he 



FROM THE JUNGLE 121 

arrived at the railroad station. As the 
train pulled in to the platform, I saw M. 
Jusserand, French Ambassador to the 
United States, peering through the window 
of every car in search of the former Presi- 
dent. When he caught sight of his quarry, 
he rushed to the window and grasped the 
Colonel's hand, and then hastened to the 
door to extend to him a warmer Gallic 
greeting. More composed was Robert 
Bacon, the American Ambassador to France, 
who w^as a member of Mr. Roosevelt's 
cabinet during the last weeks of his ad- 
ministration. Colonel Roosevelt jumped 
from the train and shook hands with the 
fifty odd people who pressed forward. 
As he left the station, the crowd uttered 
a loud ''Ourah!" and waved their hats 
and handkerchiefs frantically. 

Colonel Roosevelt and his son found Mrs. 
Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Miss Carow 
at the American Embassy. The former 
President had little time to devote to his 
family. He remained six days in the 



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French capital, and every hour, except the 
eight nightly required for sleeping, were 
needed to discharge the engagements which 
had been made for him by Ambassadors 
Bacon and Jusserand. He exchanged the 
usual formal calls with the President of 
the Republic, the French Minister for 
Foreign Affairs, and other dignitaries. He 
dined at the palace and in the homes of 
leading statesmen. He visited Notre Dame, 
the Carnavalet Museum, the Hotel de 
Ville, the Luxembourg gallery, beautiful 
Versailles, and the famous dungeons in 
the Palais du Justice, in which Marie 
Antoinette was confined prior to her ex- 
ecution, and witnessed military manoeuvres. 
He stood by the tomb of the great Napoleon, 
looking silently upon the last resting place 
of the man who conquered at Austerlitz, 
Friedland, the Pyramids, Jena, Marengo 
and Moscow. He manifested deep interest 
in the battle flags preserved near the crypt 
where Bonaparte lies, delighting the French 
officers accompanying him with his ref- 



FROM THE JUNGLE US 

erences to the part played by various 
regiments which carried them in the cam- 
paigns that meant so much for the glory 
of France. 

Colonel Roosevelt's knowledge of French 
history and his appreciation of the part 
France played in the development of the 
world, his democracy and his punctilious 
courtesy, all appealed to the Parisians. 
That he enjoyed his stay in the capital 
cannot be doubted. He liked the whirligig 
which brought fresh scenes before his eyes 
almost every minute. But if he should 
be asked what made the deepest impres- 
sion upon him, I am sure he would say his 
reception by his colleagues of the Academy 
of Moral and Political Sciences. The lec- 
ture he delivered before the Sorbonne was 
one calculated to reach the French mind. 
I have extracted a few paragraphs to show 
the character of his talk. 

It is a mistake for any nation merely to copy 
another; but it is an even greater mistake, it is a 
proof of weakness in any nation, not to be anxious 



124 FROM THE JUNGLE 

to learn from another, and willing and able to adapt 
that learning to the new national conditions and 
make it fruitful and productive therein. 

* * * 

There is no more unhealthy being, no man less 
worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, 
or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief 
toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achieve- 
ment or in that noble effort which, even if it fail, 

comes second to achievement. 

* * * 

The man who does nothing cuts the same 
sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be 

cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. 

* * * 

The greatest of all curses is the curse of sterility, 
and the severest of all condemnations should be 
that visited upon willful sterility. The first essential 
in any civilization is that the man and the woman 
shall be father and mother of healthy children, so 

that the race shall increase and not decrease. 

* * * 

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, 
inheritance, and conviction ; but it is a mere matter 
of common sense to recognize that the state, the 
community, the citizens acting together, can do a 
number of things better than if they were left to 
individual action. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 125 

From Paris, Colonel Roosevelt and his 
party went to Brussels. Having received 
assistance from the Belgian authorities 
in Africa, he desired to testify appreciation 
by a call of courtesy upon King Albert 
and the members of the government. Brus- 
sels was decked with flags in his honor and, 
as elsewhere, a large crowd received him 
at the railroad station. After luncheon 
at the American Embassy, he visited the 
Brussels exposition, where the King was 
in waiting. After inspecting the exposi- 
tion. His Majesty invited Colonel Roose- 
velt to drive with him to the Laaken 
Palace, which lies on the outskirts of 
Belgium. 

This historic building, which was once 
occupied by Napoleon, w^as interesting 
to Colonel Roosevelt as a monument of 
the troubled past. He and Mrs. Roosevelt 
dined with the King and Queen during 
the evening and when they left the palace 
found Brussels as described by Byron's 
famous lines : 



126 FROM THE JUNGLE 

There was a sound of revelry by night, 
And Belgium's capital had gathered then 

Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright 

The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. 

Colonel Roosevelt remained less than a 
day in Brussels and then left for Holland, 
the land of his forefathers. The Colonel 
had looked forward with intense interest 
to visiting this little country, partly be- 
cause his ancestors sailed therefrom three 
centuries ago for the New World, partly 
because of his admiration for the industry, 
the thrift, and the other solid qualities of 
the Dutch people. He knew Dutch history 
as thoroughly as that of the other lands he 
had visited. The fighting qualities of 
William the Silent, the ability of Admiral 
van Tromp appealed to him. He enter- 
tained a sincere admiration for these people 
who have wrested their land from the grasp- 
ing hand of the sea, and keep it for their 
own. 

So, to Colonel Roosevelt, every hour 
he spent in Holland was an hour of interest. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 127 

When he changed cars at the frontier town 
of Roosendaal, he was saluted by a hirge 
crowd, which gave him the lieartier greet- 
ing because they considered him of their 
blood. He was received by the young 
Queen Wilhelmina and her Prince Consort, 
Prince Henry, at the royal palace of Hetloo 
and with Mrs. Roosevelt enjoyed their 
hospitality in the form of a state luncheon. 
He paid the tribute of a visit to the tomb 
of Grotius, the father of international 
law. He wxnt to the Prinzenhof, at Delft, 
where William of Orange, the Silent, the 
founder of Dutch Independence, was as- 
sassinated in 1584. The Hague offered a 
striking popular reception, including a 
serenade by groups of singers marching 
through the square upon which the Roose- 
velt apartments were located. From the 
Hague he automobiled to Amsterdam, 
where in the celebrated Ryks Museum, 
he saw the best of Rembrandt's works, 
the ''Night Watch," the "Masters of the 
Guild," and others. He won his way into 



128 FROM THE JUNGLE 

the hearts of one audience by reciting in 
the native tongue a nursery rhyme he had 
learned when a child. He referred with 
pride to his Dutch ancestry, and com- 
mended the qualities of the people which 
enabled them to combine art and utility 
in their productions. The feeling produced 
by Colonel Roosevelt was well expressed 
by a high Dutch official in this way: 

"Our welcome to Mr. Roosevelt is more 
than personal. It is because we see in 
him the representative of democracy, of 
the principles of liberty without excess, of 
full self-government without permitting 
any citizen, either by wealth or position, to 
take any right away from another. We 
have had doubt in Europe as to whether 
the United States really has found the right 
form of government. Some of these doubts 
remain, but the popular demonstrations 
show they believe the American people 
have attained, or are attaining those aims 
for which they have striven. I do not 
think this country or the other European 



FROM THE JUNGLE 129 

countries are doing all the things which 
have been done for Mr. Roosevelt as an 
individual, but for Mr. Roosevelt as the 
deputy of what they believe America to be." 



VII 
SCANDINAVIA 



The North Wind came from the frozen sea, 

Armed with weapons chill. 
The South Wind hurried from his home 

Filled with lust to kill. 
And God on high, with pity keen 

For weaklings in the way, 
Tempered the wrath of the forces strong — 
'Twas Peace who won the day. 

— From Life's Ideals. 



\\/''HEN Matt Quay was alive, and, 
of course, in the Senate, he be- 
came indignant at an appointment an- 
nounced by Mr. Roosevelt, and hastened 
to the White House to register a protest. 
The President was occupied at the moment, 
and Senator Quay amused himself by read- 
ing a book on the folk lore of Northern 
Europe. When Mr. Roosevelt appeared 
the two engaged in an animated conversa- 
tion on the Sagas of the Danes, the Nor- 
wegians and the Swedes. An hour later, 
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Quay left the White House and as he passed 
out he exclaimed: 

"Confound it! I forgot all about that 
appointment." 

AYhich indicates that Colonel Roosevelt 
went to the lands of the north with a knowl- 
edge of the legendary heroes of which 
they sing. He journeyed to Copenhagen 
by way of Hamburg, receiving the American 
Consul General and his staff stationed at 
that point, and Kiel, where the German 
battle fleet at anchor honored him by 
manning the rails. The King of Denmark 
was absent from his country, but Crown 
Prince Christian, the Regent of the Uni- 
versity of Copenhagen, Dr. Maurice Francis 
Egan, the American Minister, and sub- 
ordinate representatives of the Danish 
government gave him a cordial reception 
at the railroad station. A state carriage, 
with the coachman and footman in royal 
scarlet liveries, conveyed the former Presi- 
dent, sitting at the right of the Crown 
Prince, to a palace which had been placed 



132 FROM THE JUNGLE 

at the disposal of the Roosevelts. A great 
crowd, which hned the streets, voiced the 
popular welcome, glad to pay its tribute 
to a man whose deeds were writ upon im- 
perishable leaves of history. Leaving 
Colonel Roosevelt, Christian returned to 
his own palace, where the traveler formally 
called at once, thus observing the con- 
ventionalities. Tea was served wdiile the 
American citizen and the Danish heir 
presumptive and their wives chatted of 
the questions of the moment, and then the 
Roosevelts returned to their quarters to 
rest before the ro^^al dinner. Mr. Roosevelt 
enjoyed two distinctions which will be 
handed down by the Danes. He is the 
first private person who ever has lodged 
in a palace and he dined with the Crown 
Prince and Queen in a gray flannel suit. 
To his embarrassment, his baggage had 
gone astray, and he was unable to dress 
properly. He placed himself upon an 
intimate footing with Christian at once 
by grasping him by the arm when he first 



FROM THE JUNGLE 133 

met him and saying: "I want to tell you 
about my baggage." Then he plunged into 
an explanation of how it had disappeared 
and of his chagrin in lacking the dress he 
should wear when visiting royalty. 

"The Old Guard dies but never surren- 
ders," quoted the Crown Prince, when 
Colonel Roosevelt intimated he was suf- 
fering some fatigue from his journey. There 
was no evidence that the Colonel was tired 
when under the auspices of Minister Egan 
he received the Americans in Copenhagen. 
Nor did he depart in the slightest degree 
from the itinerary which had been mapped 
out for him the next day. Early in the 
morning he visited Kronborg Castle, the 
scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet, w^here he 
gave the immortal author 

"Such thanks 
As fits a King's rememberance." 

From Shakespeare's Elsinore, he hastened 
to the steamship Queen Maud, which 
w^hen he was aboard slowly steamed along 
the Sound. A luncheon was s^iven in his 



134 FROM THE JUNGLE 

honor with Admiral RichHeu, of the Danish 
Navy, as host. The vessel entered Copen- 
hagen harbor, passing by the Danish Fleet, 
whose officers and men stood at salute. 
In Royal carriages, the party returned 
to the palace, driving through crowds 
which gave another demonstration of 
Danish admiration for the American tourist. 
The stay in Copenhagen ended with a 
brilliant dinner offered by the Municipality. 
In Denmark, as in CA-ery other country 
he visited, Colonel Roosevelt sought to 
lead his conversation with the men w^ith 
whom he came in contact to subjects in 
which they were expert. For instance, 
coming from Khartoum across the desert, 
he met Sir William Garstin, the great 
irrigation authority, with whom he dis- 
cussed conservation as applied in foreign 
lands. In Italy, he talked of ancient Rome 
with Ferrero, the great historian and 
sought to compare with him the govern- 
mental problems of that great state of 
the past with those of the present day. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 135 

In Austria and Hungary, he displayed keen 
interest in social reforms. And here in 
Denmark he learned all he could of the 
system of small land holdings and the 
method observed in caring for and helping 
the aged poor. There is no doubt the knowl- 
edge he has acquired of European policies, 
as affected by experience, will be useful 
to him in any recommendations which, 
as a private citizen, he may decide to make 
to the American people. 

From the land of the Melancholy Dane, 
the Roosevelt Party proceeded to Chris- 
tiania, capital of the Kingdom of Norway. 
It was a foregone conclusion that Colonel 
Roosevelt should have a reception in this 
city the equal of any, at least, extended to 
him elsewhere. As President of the United 
States, he had formally recognized the in- 
dependent kingdom organized by the 
Norwegian people and had confirmed the 
recognition by sending to their Capital 
a diplomatic representative accredited only 
to them. He was the recipient of the 



136 FROM THE JUNGLE 

Nobel Peace Prize conferred in token of 
his mediation between Russia and Japan, 
which terminated the war of these nations. 
Above all, he had given to Americans of 
Norwegian origin the same consideration 
extended to any other class of citizens, 
and had worked for their advantage in 
common with the rest of the people. 

Prince Christian was the first member of 
a Royal House to greet the distinguished 
traveler as he descended from the train. 
The King and Queen of Norway, surrounded 
by the government ministers and the Nobel 
Committee, honored him by welcoming 
him at the railroad station at Christiania. 
Wreaths, flowers and flags decorated the 
pillars of a small grand stand, the seats 
of which were filled with women in bril- 
liant costumes. A red carpet covered the 
platform. The strains of the Star Spangled 
Banner drowned the noise of the train as 
it slowly came to a stop. King Haakon 
VII, in frock suit and tall hat, advanced 
and grasped Colonel Roosevelt's hand, 



FROM THE JUNGLE 137 

without requiring the latter to undergo 
the formality of a presentation. It was 
noticed the Colonel was in the same cos- 
tume as the King, showing that the miss- 
ing baggage had ''turned up." The King 
presented the Colonel to Queen Maud. 
Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt and Kermit 
were then presented to the King and Queen. 
With the Queen upon his arm, and fol- 
lowed by the King and Mrs. Roosevelt 
and other members of the party, the Colonel 
walked through the royal waiting rooms 
to the royal landaus which had been pro- 
vided. A great crowd thronging the space 
in front of the station bared their heads. 
Venetian poles, connected and looped with 
wreaths and flags and bunting gracefully, 
marked the way to the palace. The men 
and women on the sidewalks doffed their 
hats or waved their handkerchiefs. After 
having seen the royal rooms placed at 
their disposal, the Roosevelts, escorted 
by the King and Queen, went to the Ameri- 
can Legation, where luncheon was served. 



138 FROM THE JUNGLE 

A large crowd of Americans attended the 
reception, which followed the meal, but 
Colonel Roosevelt did not tarry long, re- 
turning to the palace to dispose of the cor- 
respondence requiring attention. AVhile 
he was so engaged, the King, unannounced, 
entered his salon. 'T thought you might 
want some tea," he suggested. ''By George, 
I would," replied the former President. 
Over the "cup that cheers }:)ut doth not 
inebriate," the King and the American 
discussed state affairs, told stories, in which 
Setli Bullock, the Dakota marshal, figured, 
and formed a friendshi]j that is not usually 
permitted with royalty. There was a state 
dinner, at which the King and Queen were 
host and hostess, much resembling functions 
of the same kind that had been served 
elsewhere. The change was in men rather 
than in scene; and the speeches were of 
Norway and Norwegians. 

The next day, Colonel Roosevelt de- 
livered his address on Peace before the 
Nobel Committee at the State Theatre. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 1,59 

It is always incumbent upon tlie recipient 
of a prize from the Committee to speak 
upon the subject in connection with which 
he was honored. The address tlie Cokjnel 
made was noteworthy, because it ofi'ered 
some practical suggestions looking to the 
abolition of war. I give a few striking 
sentences, for the governments of the world 
are manifesting a keen interest in the pro- 
posals the former President made, and will 
utilize them without doubt in their dis- 
cussion of peace treaties. The Colonel 
said: 

* 'Peace is generally good in itself, but 
it is never the highest good unless it comes 
as the handmaid of righteousness; and it 
becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely 
as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as 
an instrument to further the ends of des- 
potism or anarchy. 

''No nation deserves to exist if it permits 
itself to lose the stern and virile virtues, 
and this without regard to whether the 
loss is due to the growth of a heartless and 



140 FROM THE JUNGLE 

all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged 
indulgence in luxury and soft effortless 
ease, or to the deification of a warped and 
twisted sentimentality. 

"All really civilized communities should 
have effective arbitration treaties among 
themselves. 

"It is earnestly to be hoped that the 
various governments of Europe, working 
with those of x\merica and of Asia, shall 
set themselves seriously to the task of 
devising some method which shall ac- 
complish this result — the completion of 
the Court of Arbitral Justice. 

"Granted sincerity of purpose, the great 
Powers of the World should find no in- 
surmountable difficulty in reaching an 
agreement which would put an end to the 
present costly and growing extravagance 
of expenditure on naval armaments. 

"It would be a master stroke if those 
great Powers honestly bent on peace would 
form a League of Peace, not only to keep 
the peace among themselves, but to prevent 



FROM THE JUNGLE 141 

by force, if necessary, its being broken by 
others. 

"Each nation must keep well prepared 
to defend itself until the establishment 
of some form of international police power, 
competent and willing to prevent violence 
as between nations." 

The University of Norway conferred 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon 
the * 'human steam engine," as the Colonel 
was humorously described by the Dean, 
a not unusual honor for him, in view of the 
fact that he had collected a number of 
diplomas since emerging from the jungle. 
He dined at the City Hall, discussed Arctic 
exploration with Nansen, who had picked 
Peary to reach the pole, and gave a sitting 
to the Norwegian sculptor Vigland for a 
statue ordered by North Dakota. He and 
the King were together as much as possible, 
and it was with evident regret that the 
latter saw him depart for Stockholm. 

Sweden sought to give Colonel Roosevelt 
a welcome in keeping with its national 



142 FROM THE JUNGEL 

reputation for hospitality. The King was 
absent on the French Riviera, but Prince 
Wilhani, as his representative, and the 
Prime Minister, greeted the Roosevelts 
at the railway station. The former im- 
mediately communicated to the visitors 
the news that King Edward of Great 
Britain was dead, which meant, of course, 
that the royal entertainments would have 
to be curtailed. As in other capitals, the 
former President carried out a program 
which had been arranged for him by the 
American Minister. He visited the North- 
ern Museum and the Biological Museum. 
He watched a group of dancers, in brilliant 
native costumes, go through the mazes 
of national dances at Skansen. He lunched 
with Prince William at the palace. He 
inspected a school at Valhallavagen. He 
witnessed a cavalry drill and military 
horse jumping at Sport Park, and a gym- 
nastic exhibition at the barracks of the 
Royal Horse Guards. He was the guest 
of honor at the Swedish Citizens' dinner. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 143 

He met Sven Hedin at the luncheon given 
by Prince WilHam, and discussed with 
him the explorations the latter had made 
in Asia. He resumed the conversation 
at a luncheon the next day at the American 
Legation. He spoke of Antarctic explora- 
tions with Dr. Nordenskjold, who headed 
an expedition in the south polar regions. 
He received the Swedish members of the 
Interparliamentary Union. On account 
of a sore throat, he was unable personally 
to place a wreath upon King Oscar's tomb. 
Kermit performed this duty by his direction. 
The Scandinavian tour ended rather 
gloomily on account of King Edward's 
death. But the character of the reception 
extended by each of the countries of this 
racial group demonstrated that the former 
President has a real hold upon the people 
of the northern part of Europe. 



VIII 
GERMANY 



The War Lord bared his mighty arm 

And let the muscles play. 
The valiant guest removed his coat 

Preparing for the fray. 
And then the two talked lengthily — 

Of what I cannot say. 

— A German Jingle. 



^T^HE death of a King plunges all official 
Europe into mourning. The ro^^al 
houses are so intermarried that they con- 
stitute one grand family, each with its own 
particular estate to govern. The policy is 
almost as old as humanity, and its purpose 
is political. It is designed to bring about 
closer relations, to effect alliances, to make 
a community of interests which w^ill per- 
mit united action. But with men's am- 
bitions as they are, with the various Houses 
having practically the same family rela- 
tionship with each other, this procedure 
is of no real value. Today, the main pur- 
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FROM THE JUNGLE 145 

pose of royal intermarriages seems to be 
to enable Kings, Princes and Princesses to 
wed in their own walk of life and provide 
heirs for the thrones. 

King Edward's death naturally affected 
the remainder of Colonel Roosevelt's Euro- 
pean tour. The Swedish government found 
it necessary to abandon certain functions 
it had proposed. Germany was forced 
to follow suit, much to the disappointment 
of the Emperor, who had looked forward 
with keen anticipation to Colonel Roose- 
velt's visit. The two ' men have much in 
common. Each is quick in action. Each 
has a catholic education. Each is animated 
by a sincere purpose to work for the better- 
ment of his fellow-man and particularly 
his own people. William hearkened to 
the suggestion of Mr. Roosevelt, when 
President, to settle the Moroccan im- 
broglio by an international conference. 
He worked for peace between Russia and 
Japan with the same loyalty that Mr. 
Roosevelt displayed, and aided the latter 



146 FROM THE JUNGLE 

materially. He believes, as does Mr. 
Roosevelt, that the best way to avoid war 
is by being prepared for it. He has created 
the German Navy, because he believes 
the future of his coimtry lies upon the sea, 
and, looking at tlie situation of America 
from the American point of view, sym- 
pathized with the earnest efforts of Mr. 
Roosevelt to increase tlie fighting strength 
of the American fleet. He realizes that 
the attitude of Mr. Roosevelt was directly 
responsible for the removal of tension, 
approaching the danger line, in the rela- 
tions of the United States and Germany 
over the Venezuelan blockade. And above 
all, he looks upon the Colonel as a states- 
man of first rank, with courage and force, 
and with the ability to execute what he 
dares to suggest. 

So regarding the American traveler, 
he made preparations for his coming on a 
par with those usually planned for Im- 
perial and Royal guests. He invited the 
Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt to stay with 



FROM THE JUNGLE 147 

him in his palace. He planned state dinners, 
state ceremonies of varions kinds, and 
numerous entertainments designed lo a (lord 
instruction and amusement for his guest. 
The death of King Edward, who was his 
uncle, made his kindly hospitality impos- 
sible. The result, however, was to give the 
Emperor and the former President more 
of an opportunity to be together privately, 
and they took full advantage of it. 

It had been the intention of the Emperor 
to be at the station to receive the Roose- 
velt party. As he was in mourning, this 
of course was out of the question, so he 
sent as his representative his Master of 
the Horse with two Royal carriages drawn 
by a double team. Unfortunately this 
official came too late, and Colonel Roose- 
velt did not wait for him. 

Baron Von Schon, the German Minister 
for Foreign Affairs, was the only representa- 
tive of the Kaiser's government wdio 
reached the station in time to greet the 
visitors. The Roosevelt party used a pri- 



148 FROM THE JUNGLE 

vate automobile and proceeded to the 
American Embassy. The failure of the 
German officials to be at the station was 
due to their reliance upon a telegram which 
reported the Roosevelt special as twenty- 
eight minutes late, when as a matter of 
fact it rolled into Berlin on time. 

German officialdom seemed to tumble 
all over itself in an effort to make Colonel 
Roosevelt understand how deeply it re- 
gretted the mistake. Throughout the morn- 
ing of his arrival, the high dignitaries called 
at the Embassy to explain, only to find the 
Colonel looking upon the affair as a joke. 
At noon, accompanied by the Imperial 
Chancellor, the Foreign Secretary and 
other officials, he went to the New Palace 
at Potsdam. To do the visitor honor, the 
Kaiser met him on the steps of the palace. 
William wore the striking white uniform 
of a general. His head was covered by a 
glittering brass helmet surmounted by a 
silver eagle. Colonel Roosevelt was in a 
frock coat and high hat. The two men 



FROM THE JUNGLE 149 

exchanged a cordial greeting. Mrs. Roose- 
velt, Miss Ethel and Kermit were presented, 
and then the Kaiser led the party through 
what is known as the Shell Room to the 
salon beyond, where the Empress, the Crown 
Princess, memV^ers of the royal family, 
court ladies and gentlemen were in waiting. 

Luncheon was served in the Jasper 
Gallery, a beautiful chamber, the walls of 
which are decorated by chef d'oeuvres of 
the old masters. Following the luncheon, 
the company returned to the Shell Room, 
where the Kaiser and the ex-President had 
their first opportunuity to take each other's 
measure. The Emperor, with an equerry, 
escorted the Roosevelts in automobiles to 
the Sans Souci palace, a mile away, and 
pointed out the views of which he is fond. 
It was not until five o'clock in the after- 
noon that the Colonel bade auf wieder- 
sehen to his Imperial host. 

Colonel Roosevelt had seen the evolu- 
tions of Itahan, Austrian, Hungarian, 
French and Norwegian troops. Now he 



150 FROM THE JUNGLE 

was destined to witness the iron arm of the 
Kaiser in action. On the second day of 
his visit he proceeded to Doeberitz, w^iere 
the five cavahy, six infantry and fonr ar- 
tillery regiments were to engage in a sham 
battle. The troops were divided into two 
forces, each nnder the command of the 
two elder sons of the Emperor. There 
was nothing of the parade abont the 
manenvers. They were carried ont nnder 
strictly war conditions. The Kaiser was 
present, keeping Colonel Roosevelt by his 
side, and discussing witli him military 
operations, disarmament and world move- 
ments. When the operations ended, the 
general in charge presented himself to the 
Kaiser and offered criticisms of the con- 
duct of each command. Having approved 
his criticisms, the Kaiser and Mr. Roose- 
velt rode to a new position and reviewed 
the troops. As each regiment marched by, 
the Kaiser and Colonel Roosevelt saluted 
the colors, the former by raising his hand to 
his helmet, and the latter by removing the 



FROM THE JUNGLE 151 

sombrero wliicli he wore. ^Vllen llie review 
was ended, the Kaiser and tlie Cok)nel 
approached several hundred officers of liigh 
rank standing on Middk^berg Iljlk Tin-n- 
ing to his guest, AYilhani said in a voice 
that all could hear: 

"My friend Roosevelt, I am glad to 
welcome you, the most distinguished Ameri- 
can citizen. You are the first civilian who 
has ever reviewed German troops." 

There were many quiet hours which the 
Kaiser and the former President spent 
together. There were dinners and lunch- 
eons given at the American Embassy, 
which is presided over by that dignified 
and scholarly statesman, David Jayne Hill; 
there were meetings with distinguished 
Germans, who talked statecraft, philos- 
ophy and industrial problems with the 
Colonel. There w^ere conferences on Ameri- 
can affairs with Frank B. Kellogg, who has 
a reputation as a ''trust buster," with 
Henry White, who had come to Berlin, and 
with Seth Low, former mayor of New 



152 FROM THE JUNGLE 

York. He exchanged reminiscences of the 
Spanish War with Count von Gotzen, who 
was German mihtary attache in Cuba and 
who reported favorably on the conduct of 
the Rough Riders. He discussed airships 
with Count ZeppeHn, peace with the In- 
terparhamentary Union of the Reichstag, 
and hunting with a number of men who 
had shot wild game, including Professor 
C. G. Schilling, author of "With Flash 
Light and Rifle in Africa." He received 
German military and naval officers, bankers 
and the iVmerican colony in Berlin. 

Aside from his meeting with the Kaiser, 
the most important event of the Colonel's 
visit to the German capital was his lecture 
at the University of Berlin. His throat 
had improved, and he deliverd his address 
without strain. He spoke on "The World 
Movement," and he handled the subject 
in masterly style. He traced the histor}^ 
of civihzation from its beginning to the 
present day. His address deserves t^-e 
careful study of every American. Un- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 153 

fortunately I cannot give it in full, but 
I take from it the following striking thoughts 
which it expressed: 

"From a new^ discovery in science to a 
new method of combating or applying 
socialism, there is no movement of note 
which can take place in any part of the 
world without powerfully affecting masses 
of people in Europe, America and AustraHa, 
in Asia and Africa. 

"For weal or for woe, the peoples of 
mankind are knit together far closer than 
ever before. 

"It would be a bad thing indeed to accept 
Tolstoy as a guide in social and moral 
manners: but it would also be a bad thing 
not to have Tolstoy, not to profit by the 
lofty side of his teachings. 

"Never has philanthropy, humanitar- 
ianism, seen such development as now; 
and though we must all beware of the folly 
and the viciousness, no worse than folly, 
which marks the believer in the perfectibil- 
ity of man when his heart runs away with 



154 FROM THE JUNGLE 

his head, or when vanity usurps the place 
of conscience, yet we must remember also 
that it is only by working along the lines 
laid down by the philanthropist, by the 
lovers of mankind, that we can be sure of 
lifting our civilization to a higher and more 
permanent plane of well-being than was 
ever attained by any preceding civilization. 

"Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe 
to the nation that does not make ready 
to hold its own in time of need against all 
who would harm it; and woe thrice over 
to the nation in which the average man 
loses the fighting edge, loses the power to 
serve as a soldier if the day of need should 
arise. 

"It is no impossible dream to build up 
a civilization in which morality, ethical 
development, and a true feeling of brother- 
hood shall all alike be divorced from false 
sentimentality and from the rancorous and 
evil passions which curiously enough so 
often accompany professions of sentimental 
attachment to the rights of man. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 155 

"Finally, this world movement of civi- 
lization, this movement which is now felt 
throbbing in every corner of the globe, 
shonld bind the nations of the world to- 
gether, while yet leaving unimpaired that 
love of country in the individual citizen 
which in the present stage of the world's 
progress is essential to the world's well- 
emg. 

The German people did not fail to mani- 
fest their interest in the American visitor. 
The city was not decorated, as had been 
some the Colonel had visited, but this 
did not indicate any lack of desire on the 
part of the people to do honor to the Kaiser's 
guest. At a time when Germany officially 
was in mourning, it would have been in 
bad taste to have given an air of festivity 
to the German capital. Moreover, it would 
not have been allowed by the court. The 
part in Colonel Roosevelt's reception played 
by the populace was confined to the official 
calls of the representatives of the munici- 
pality and the hearty evidences of interest 



156 FROM THE JUNGLE 

and good will which were manifested by 
the people. Colonel Roosevelt knows Ger- 
man and was able to speak in that lan- 
guage with those he met. The press de- 
voted a great deal of space to him, issuing 
special editions upon the day of his arrival, 
and the comic papers lost no opportunity 
to make caricatures in which he appeared 
in various guises and postures. Indeed, in 
every way, Germany manifested its appre- 
ciation of the presence of the distinguished 
American. 

What the Kaiser thinks of Colonel Roose- 
velt, and what the Colonel thinks of the 
Kaiser, probably never will be known. 
But I can hazard a guess that the admira- 
tion each entertained for the other before 
the Colonel came to Berlin has been 
strengthened by their meeting. 



IX 
ENGLAND 



Britannia stood in widow's weeds upon the wind-swept 
cliff. — The Land in Purple. 



/^OLONEL ROOSEVELT toured the 
^^ continent of Europe as a private 
citizen. In Engl^aid, he held the title and 
office of Special Ambassador of the United 
States. It was peculiarly appropriate that 
he should be so accredited to the British 
sovereign and people. In their eyes, he 
was the first citizen of America. They 
knew of his relations with King Edward 
during thait Tuler's reign, of the co-opera- 
tion of the tw o men to end the bloody war 
in Manchuria . They were aware of the 
interest the K ing had taken in the coming 
of the former American President, of the 
arrangeraents .he had made for his recep- 
tion, of th^ thought he had given to the 

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158 FROM THE JUNGLE 

plans for his entertainment. And through 
the letters Mr. Roosevelt had written to 
Ambassador Reid, as well as the dispatches 
of the English correspondents traveling 
with the distinguished tourist, they were 
informed of the pleasure with which he 
was anticipating his audiences with the 
King. 

Colonel Roosevelt regarded the death 
of Edward as a calamity not only for the 
British people but for the world at large. 
Having had an opportunity, through diplo- 
matic correspondence, to plumb his states- 
manship, he realized the loss the world's 
peace suffered through his demise. There- 
fore, when he arrived in London early in 
the morning of May 16, his feelings were 
quite in sympathy with the mourning into 
which the English people were plunged. 

Had Edward lived, his son, as Prince of 
Wales, would have played but a minor part 
in the entertainment of the iVmerican 
citizen. George upon the throne, however, 
could do little in the trying time of grief, 



FROM THE JUNGLE 159 

when the nation was weeping over the bier 
of his father and he was endeavoring to 
prevent a crisis for the government of which 
he had become the official head. In spite 
of his personal loss, in spite of the thousand 
and one things clamoring for his action, 
he did not fail to remember the coming 
of Colonel Roosevelt and to give him at- 
tentions far beyond those which a Special 
Ambassador ordinarily would have re- 
ceived. He sent his own officials, the Earl 
of Dundonald, Commander Cunninghame- 
Grahame, and Vice- Admiral Sir George 
Neville, R. N., to welcome the former 
President when he touched English soil. 
He received him on the day of his arrival. 
He honored him by inviting him to sit at 
his table at luncheon in Windsor Castle 
following the funeral ceremonies over the 
remains of his great father; and he did so 
to the exclusion of a hundred men or 
women of imperial and royal blood. He 
made it a point to show Colonel Roosevelt 
all the personal and official courtesies 



160 FROM THE JUNGLE 

possible under the circumstances, and made 
the latter feel that he was indeed an honored 
guest of the nation. 

And Colonel Roosevelt, as the Special 
Ambassador of the United States, was 
careful to manifest his appreciation of the 
position he occupied as Special Ambassador 
to the funeral of King Edward and of the 
consideration shown him as an American 
citizen. He left nothing undone that strict 
diplomatic etiquette required him to do. 
He paid the calls his office required of him, 
upon the numerous Kings who were in 
London attending the funeral. It is true 
he did not see all of them personally — that 
was not required, but he repaired to their 
dwelling places and signed his name in 
their visitors' books. King Haakon, whom 
he had met at Christiania, departed from 
custom and called upon him at Dorchester 
House, the home of Ambassador Whitelaw 
Reid, where he stopped when he first 
arrived in London. This sovereign was 
most anxious that King Frederick of Den- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 161 

mark should have the opportunity to meet 
the former President. The Colonel called 
upon them both and to the Danish ruler 
expressed keen appreciation of the hos- 
pitality he had received in Copenhagen. 
Frederick brought King George of Greece 
to Dorchester House, and with the latter 
the former President discussed the history 
and present condition of the Peloponnesian 
Peninsula as interestingly as he had the 
history of other lands with their rulers. 
It was interesting, too, to note the desire 
of the King of Spain, the King of Portugal, 
and various other heads and members of 
reigning houses to converse with the rep- 
resentative of the great democracy of the 
western hemisphere. On one occasion, 
he met the German Emperor by chance 
in Buckingham Palace and was invited 
by him to his private apartments, where 
for an hour they remained together. 

Colonel Roosevelt conducted himself 
in connection with the funeral of King 
Edward as his countrymen would have 



162 FROM THE JUNGLE 

had him do. To King George he conveyed 
the sincere sympathy of the President and 
the people of the United States in his 
bereavement. He called npon Alexandra, 
the widowed Queen, and to her spoke 
delicately of the loss she had sustained 
and the universality of the sorrow caused 
by the death of her husband. The condition 
of his throat confined him to Dorchester 
House, so that he was unable to take part 
in or witness the solemn pageant accom- 
panying the transfer of the remains of 
Edward from Buckingham Palace to West- 
minster. But on the day of the funeral, 
he appeared in full evening dress and took 
his seat in a royal carriage with M. Pin- 
chon, of France, and Sanad Khan Montaz 
Os Sultaneh, of Persia, two other special 
envoys sent to express sympathy of their 
countries in England's bereavement. He 
had been the subject of one or two out- 
bursts of enthusiasm on the part of the 
people, and to avoid such an embarrass- 
ing incident during the funeral he leaned 



FROM THE JUNGLE 163 

back in the vehicle and escaped public 
notice. Upon arrival at Windsor, he joined 
the foot procession of royalties, and moved 
with them to the final resting place of 
the dead King. 

Save for the first few days in London, 
Colonel Roosevelt had little time to devote 
to his family, which had been joined by 
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Dorchester 
House was the center toward which a 
stream of callers flowed. Not only Royalty, 
but Cabinet Ministers, men who had made 
reputations in science, art and industry. 
Ambassadors of foreign powers, and per- 
sonal friends appeared to greet and to 
talk with him. That he enjoyed this 
feature of his English visit no one who 
knows him will doubt; but perhaps the most 
comfortable times he had were those when 
with Seth Bullock, the famous marshal 
of North Dakota, and Selous and Cun- 
ninghame, the two men who made the 
African trip the huge scientific success 
it was, he wandered about London, in- 



164 FROM THE JUNGLE 

specting the work of a taxidermist who 
was mounting some of the faunal specimens 
he had shot and talking with them of the 
wild game of the Dark Continent and of 
the Western plains of America. And what 
a pleasure it was for him to meet Elihu 
Root, his former Secretary of State and 
now a United States Senator from the 
state of New York, a brain and not a man. 
Colonel Roosevelt never repeated a con- 
versation, but it is safe to say that with 
Mr. Root he went over political develop- 
ments in the United States from the time 
of his departure from New York and 
learned the President's side of the con- 
servation controversy between Secretary 
of the Interior Ballinger and Gifford Pin- 
ch ot. 

Colonel Roosevelt's time was not, how- 
ever, taken up with callers only. There 
were dinners and luncheons with the no- 
biHty, with members of the Ministry, with 
societies and clubs. It is difficult to pick out 
the meal that pleased him most, but I have 



FROM THE JUNGLE 105 

no doubt he thoroughly enjoyed that given 
in his honor by the members of the Irish 
party in Parhament. The idea of his 
accepting an invitation from men in op- 
position to the government was repugnant 
to the diplomatic views of certain states- 
men; but with Mr. Roosevelt freedom of 
action is a cardinal principle, and he gladly 
dined with the Nationalists. He would 
have liked to go to Ireland. It was with 
regret he could not visit Scotland. But 
his time was too limited and he was com- 
pelled to substitute for these pleasures 
his meetings with their representatives. 

Colonel Roosevelt received the degree 
of LL.D. from Cambridge, undergoing a 
''ragging" which the students of that an- 
cient University give only to those for 
whom they have real admiration. He saw 
there the fun-loving side of the English 
character, the humor of the practical jokes 
they play, and in contrast the stately, 
time-discolored buildings which have had 
so great an influence in the development 



166 FROM THE JUNGLE 

of the English nation. Tlie University 
students' newspaper, the Goivnsman^ 
could not permit the new alumnus to escape 
without a merry quip, and it published the 
following bit of verse at his expense: 

The Hon and the unicorn will scatter for their lives 
When the mighty big game hunter from America 

arrives ; 
But his process in the jungle is as nothing to his 

fame 
In the copy-books cum Sunday chapel missionary 

game. 
Oh, we're ready for you, Teddy; our sins are all 

reviewed ; 
We've put away our novels and our statues in the 

nude; 
We've read your precious homilies and hope to 

hear some more 
At the coming visitation of the moral Theodore. 
No, seriously, Teddy (we're proud to have you here) ; 
Your speeches may be out of date, your methods 

maj^ be queer. 
But you've done some pretty decent things without 

delay or fuss, 
And you're full of grit inside you — and that's what 

appeals to us. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 167 

So we're ready for you, Teddy, but take my good 

advice : 
Though sin is really naughty we find it really nice; 
So when you come to speak to us, in Providence's 

name. 
Give the go-by to the Sunday chapel missionary 

game. 

The Cambridge degree was only one of 
several real honors he received in England. 
The City of London conferred its freedom 
upon him in the famous old Guildhall; 
and in receiving the gold box containing 
the certificate, he stood almost in the same 
place General Grant did thirty-three years 
ago when he was accorded similar recogni- 
tion. Colonel Roosevelt delivered a speech 
of thanks on this occasion which proved 
to be the sensation of his stay in England. 
He spoke straight from the shoulder as 
he promised the officials of the Sudan he 
would do. He eulogized British rule in 
Central Africa. He declared Great Britain 
had given Egypt the best government it 
had had in two thousand years. In certain 



168 FROM THE JUNGLE 

vital points, however, he found the govern- 
ment had erred. In his view, timidity and 
sentimentahty might cause more harm 
than violence and injustice. Sentimentality 
he regarded as the most broken reed upon 
which righteousness can lean. He de- 
nounced the Nationalists' party of Egypt 
as neither desirous nor capable of guaran- 
teeing primary justice. In his view, it 
was trying to bring murderous chaos upon 
the land. Either it was or was not right 
for Great Britain to be in Egypt, and es- 
tablish and maintain order. If it were 
not right to further this purpose then the 
British should get out. Some nation must 
govern Egypt. He expressed the hope and 
belief the English would decide the duty 
was theirs. 

Colonel Roosevelt's speech created a 
storm. The government was satisfied with 
it, and personally I believe from my knowl- 
edge of the man that he never would have 
made it had he not known in advance 
that the party in power would approve. 



FROM THE JUNGLE 109 

In speaking as he did, he uttered the 
sentiments I heard him frequently express 
while in Egypt. The Nationalists are 
certainly not capable of self-government. 
The policy of the British agent, in my 
personal view, is weak and vacillating, and 
unless a stronger and more definite and 
determined course be pursued, revolution 
may be expected to occur. 

The fourth and last of Mr. Roosevelt's 
European lectures was delivered in the 
Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. In this 
celebrated University, which conferred a 
degree upon him, he occupied the chair 
which twenty years ago was filled by the 
great Gladstone. This chair was founded 
by George John Romanes, who gained 
celebrity as a naturalist and Fullerian 
professor of physiology at the Royal In- 
stitution. Mr. Roosevelt's address con- 
stituted a biological analysis of history, 
and was a scholarly study of world develop- 
ment. Here are some of his most striking 
points : 



170 FROM THE JUNGLE 

"Common heirship in the things of the 
spirit makes a closer bond than common 
heirship in the things of the body. 

''We need a Hterature of science which 
shall be readable. 

"There are very real differences between 
the new and the old nations — differences 
both for good and for evil; bnt in each case 
there is the same ancestral history to reckon 
with, the same kind of civilization with its 
attendant benefits and shortcomings; and, 
after pioneer stages are passed, the problems 
to be solved, in spite of superficial differ- 
ences, are in essentials the same. They 
are those that confront all civilized peoples, 
not those that confront peoples struggling 
from barbarism into civilization. 

"So the growth of soft luxury, after 
it has reached a certain point, becomes a 
national danger patent to all. 

"It needs but little of the vision of a 
seer to foretell what must happen if the 
average woman ceases to become the mother 
of a family of healthy children, if the aver- 



FROM THE JUNGLE 171 

age man loses the will and the power to 
work up to old age and to fight whenever 
the need arises. 

'Tf the homely commonplace virtues 
die out, if strength of character vanishes 
in graceful self-indulgence, if the virile 
qualities atrophy, then the nation has lost 
what no material prosperity can ofi^set. 

"Rome fell by attack from without, 
only because the ills within her own borders 
had grown incurable. 

*'In the last analysis, the all-important 
factor in national greatness is national 
character. 

"However the battle may go, the soldier 
worthy of the name will with utmost vigor 
do his allotted task and bear himself as 
valiantly in defeat as in victory. 

'T hold that the laws of morality which 
should govern individuals in their dealings 
one with the other, are just as binding con- 
cerning nations in their dealings one with 
another." 

Colonel Roosevelt remained in England 



172 FROM THE JUNGLE 

exactly twenty-six days, by no means long 
enough to take advantage of the generous 
hospitality offered him. As he himself 
remarked, if he accepted all the invitations 
extended him, it would be months before 
he could return home. But America was 
calling with an insistent call. He wanted 
to be present at the marriage of his son, 
Theodore, Jr.; he wanted to get back once 
more into the vigorous, virile atmosphere 
in which he had lived his life. In his eyes, 
there is no land like America, and it was 
with keen joy that he set his foot on the 
steamer "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria," and 
saw her prow turn toward New York. 



CHAPTER X 



The roses twine about the door, 

Where honeysuckles roam; 
The neighbors wear a beaming smile 

And shout their welcome home. 

- — The Return. 



T T IS not too much to say that no other 
man ever has received from the peoples of 
the earth the enthusiastic, the hearty re- 
ception which they accorded to Theodore 
Roosevelt. He came to them without 
official rank, wath an honorable record for 
courage and efficiency in war, to be sure, 
but without reputation as a military genius. 
To them he was the champion of justice 
and fair dealing, of tolerance and considera- 
tion each for the other. He w^as the states- 
man, thinking not alone for his country's 
but for the world's good. He w^as the 
humanitarian, who had stopped a war and 
prevented another and labored to alleviate 
distress. He was a moralist, preacher of 
the Word, a revivalist who put the teach- 
ings of the Master in plain, simple language 
173 



FROM THE JUNGLE 174 

that the meanest could understand. And 
while he was these things, in their view, 
he was, too, a man of force and virility, 
possessing indubitable courage, and mov- 
ing straight to the mark whatever the 
obstacles in the way. 

This may sound idealistic, but it is the 
only impression one can entertain after 
having been with Colonel Roosevelt as 
I was during the greater part of his Euro- 
pean journey. In tropical Africa, I saw 
the effect of his personality and his just 
conduct upon savage blacks. In Europe, 
I watched the behavior of the men and 
women who met him. I know the feelings 
of Colonel Roosevelt were those of General 
Grant, when the latter wrote from England 
that he was glad to be honored so exten- 
sively since he felt it to be a recognition 
of the might and power of his native land. 

The trip of Colonel Roosevelt will be of 
real benefit to the United States and its 
citizens. It has been an effective advertise- 
ment of America, and from a commercial 



175 FROM THE JUNGLE 

point of view will benefit our trade. It has 
given Americans a better position abroad, 
not only because Mr. Roosevelt demon- 
strated that we do regard the nice points 
of etiquette, but because it brings home to 
all peoples the strength of a nation that 
numbers such a man among its citizens. 
He typified to Europe the greatness of the 
world power of the western hemisphere; 
and the American people should see that 
the standard he fixed shall not be lowered. 



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